Cysticercosis Cellulosae of the Optic Disc with Generalized Cysticercosis.

CYSTICERCOSIS of the brain has been known for centuries and most of the earlier reports came from central Europe. MacArthur (1934) and Dixon and Hargreaves (1944) have aroused interest in the problem of cerebral cysticercosis recently. From India very many reports have been published about the cerebral manifestations of cysticercosis (Dogra and Ahern, 1935; Menon and Veliath, 1940; McRobert, 1944; Subramaniam, 1946; Gault and Balasubrahmanyan, 1948; Raman, Ramamurthi, and David, 1950; Dave, 1950; Reddy, 1951; Chandy and Vaishnava, 1958) and some have emphasized unusual manifestations such as marked muscular development (Subramaniam, 1946) and pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy (McGill, 1947; Singh and Jolly, 1957). Most of these reports have come from southern India, though many of MacArthur's cases came from army cantonments of northern India. Cases have been reported from the Punjab by Singh and Jolly (1957) and Wahi and Chugh (1958). Though cerebral cysticercosis is a well-known entity, cysticercosis of the eye (alone or in combination with cerebral or generalized cysticercosis) is less often seen (Meyerson and Pienaar, 1961; Balakrishnan, 1961). Retinal and vitreous cysticercosis (Reddy and Reddy, 1957) and cysts in the anterior chamber have been described, but a cyst situated directly over the optic disc is very rare. We record below one such case presenting with generalized cysticercosis and cysticercosis cellulosae of the optic disc.