Title
Occasional resolution of multiple parenchymal brain calcifications in patients with neurocysticercosis
Date Issued
01 December 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Abstract
Neurocysticercosis is the infection of the CNS by cysts (larvae) of Taenia solium, a worldwide tropical disease. Cysticercosis lesions frequently locate in the gray-white matter border of the cerebral hemispheres but also occur in other neuroanatomical locations, e.g., spine, ventricles, subarachnoid space, etc.1,2 Parenchymal brain cysts usually undergo a degeneration process that ends in a calcified scar. Calcified cysticercosis cysts are easily demonstrated by CT scan3 and are assumed to persist unchanged throughout the years.4,5 We describe 2 patients in whom well-demonstrated calcified lesions were no longer seen on CT, one after 8 years and the other after 9 years. Although unusual, these cases provide proof that calcified brain cysticercosis lesions may occasionally resolve.
Start page
531
End page
533
Volume
5
Issue
6
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología Neurología clínica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84949551641
Source
Neurology: Clinical Practice
ISSN of the container
21630402
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