Magnetic resonance imaging is also the modality of choice when evaluating patients with intraventricular cysticercosis and when assessing brainstem cysts and small cysts located over the convexity of ...

6 Neurocysticercosis with giant cysts has ... Disappearance of the giant cyst and involution of the intraventricular cyst are indicated by the arrow in Panel G. There is improvement of basal ...

West Nile Virus Activity - United States, July 17-23, 2002 Nine human cases of WNV were reported this week from two states, Louisiana and Mississippi. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, July 26 ...

Intraventricular neurocysticercosis can be managed surgically or with antiparasitic and anti-inflammatory agents, preferably by endoscopic removal of the cyst with immediate drainage of cerebrospinal ...

CYSTICERCOSIS (SIS-tuh-sir-KO-sis) of Brain or Neurocysticercosis (NEW-row SIS-tuh-sir-KO-sis) is the most common cause of seizures or epilepsy in an adult and the most common parasitic infection ...

Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic disease caused by the larval (cystic) form of the pork cestode tapeworm, Taenia solium, and is a major cause of acquired seizures and epilepsy worldwide.

Neurocysticercosis (NCC ... However, the proposed modifications do not differentiate between intraventricular and subarachnoid NCC. Such differentiation is advisable, as the two forms have ...

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Anil R, Consultant Neurologist at Manipal Hospital in Bangalore's Hebbal and Millers Road, shared, “Neurocysticercosis refers to a form of brain infection ...