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Taenia solium (Cysticercosis)
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Table 1: Treatment guidelines for the diverse forms of neurocysticercosis
Figure 1. A. Non-contrasted CT
demonstrating mild dilated ventricles and a cysticercal cyst (arrow) in the
anterior portion of the third ventricle. B. Same lesion that is better seen on contrasted MRI. C. MRI of different patient showing a cysticercal cyst (arrow) in the lateral
ventricle occluding the foramen of Monro.
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2. Intraoperative Endoscopic Images. A. Cyst being removed from the cerebral aqueduct. B.
Cluster of racemous cysticercous in the interpeduncular fossa. C. Multiple cyst in the cisterna magna.
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Life Cycle of
Cysticercosis
Lucato LT, et al.
The Role of Conventional MR Imaging Sequences in the
Evaluation of Neurocysticercosis: Impact on Characterization of the Scolex and
Lesion Burden.
AJNR Am J
Neuroradiol. 2007;28:1501-4.
Deresinski, S.
Combination Therapy of Neurocysticercosis.
Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Sep 15;49:iv.
Authors
Leonardo Rangel-Castilla, M.D.,
A. Clinton White, Jr. M.D.
Hector
H. Garcia, M.D., Ph.D. and Felicia Chow
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