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Still Life in the Brain

Alessandro Cianfoni, MD; Alessandro Cina, MD; Emanuele Pravatà, MD; Giacomo Della Marca, MD, PhD; Catello Vollono, MD; Giuseppe Maiuro, MD; Cesare Colosimo, MD

Arch Neurol. 2009;66(10):1290-1291.

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A 45-year-old Brazilian man who had recently moved to Europe presented to the emergency department for a severe, drug-resistant headache. Physical, medical, and neurological examination results were unremarkable. A noncontrast head computed tomography scan detected small, scattered intracerebral cysts in the left basal ganglia with a punctate calcification eccentrically along the cyst wall (Figure, A), while other cysts showed no calcification (Figure, B). Brain magnetic resonance imaging (Figure, C and D) showed classic findings of parenchymal neurocysticercosis in the viable stage: small cysts with a mural nodule, representing the eccentrically located cysticercus larva and its scolex.¹ The cystic fluid appeared clear, cerebral spinal fluid–like, and there were no signs of inflammatory reaction. Diagnostic confirmation was obtained with serology.

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