Seventeen patients with subarachnoid cysticerci received albendazole at doses of 15 mg/kg/day for eight days. All patients also received corticosteroids during the trial. Evaluation of the therapeutic response consisted of the comparison of the number of cysts shown by CT before and three months after treatment, and the evaluation of the clinical status of the patients before and after the tria...

The value of tongue and meat inspection as diagnostic tools for porcine cysticercosis was assessed in 65 Zambian village pigs by comparing the results with carcass dissections. In addition, the intensity of infections, distribution and viability of cysts in infected pigs were measured. Five pigs (7.7%) were positive on tongue examination, while routine meat inspection showed 12 (18.5%) positive...

BACKGROUND Arachnoid cysts most frequently occur in the middle cranial fossa and when they are symptomatic, patients present with central nervous symptoms. Nevertheless, a large proportion of arachnoid cysts are incidentally diagnosed during neuroimaging in cases with nonspecific symptoms. REPORT OF CASES The cases of two males with middle cranial fossa arachnoid cysts with nonspecific inner ...

INTRODUCTION The hydatid disease most often involves the liver and the lungs. The disease can involve any part of the body except the hair, teeth and nails. Primary extrahepatico-pulmonary hydatid cysts are rare and only a few sporadic cases have been reported. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundred and forty-four patients with hydatid cysts managed surgically from January 2005 to December 2009 we...

Peritumoral cysts (those arising immediately adjacent to the tumor mass) are frequently associated with benign and malignant tumors of the brain and spinal cord (syringomyelia). The cystic component of central nervous system (CNS) tumors and associated peritumoral cysts are often the cause of clinical symptoms. Because of the common occurrence of peritumoral cysts with CNS neoplasms and the mor...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between Taenia antigen (TA) detection in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in patients with definite diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (NC). METHOD Sixty-three patients with definite diagnosis of NC were submitted to a MRI of the brain, and to a CSF examination, with a meticulous search for TA by ELISA. RESULTS TA d...

BACKGROUND Hydatidosis is one of the major zoonotic diseases that cause considerable public health problems in Iran. The present study was designed to investigate pediatric hydatidosis in patients referred to the Children Medical Center Hospital in Tehran, Iran during 2005-2010. METHODS Data were collected from the records of 17 patients referred to the center with hydatidosis. Data included ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence and timing of neonatal ultrasound lesions, and clinical details about pregnancy and the perinatal period, in a total population of extremely premature children with cerebral palsy, born to mothers who were resident in Oxfordshire. METHODS Eighteen children born at less than 32 completed weeks of gestation were identified from a regional cerebral palsy re...

Dermoid cysts of the brain are not uncommon, and as many as 200 dermoid and epidermoid cysts found throughout the central nervous system have been reported by Rand and Reeves (1943). However, epidermoid and dermoid tumours of the spinal canal together with teratoid tumours, with or without communicating dermal sinuses, are of extreme rarity. Boldrey and Elvidge (1939) published a total of 43 ep...

Hydatid cysts can be caused by Echinococcus species in various tissues. Skeletal cystic lesions are very rare and may be neglected. Here, we report a case of pathologic fracture following primary hydatid cystic lesions in the proximal and femoral shaft bone. A 62-year-old man suffered a sudden fracture followed by swelling of the thigh. Intramedullary femoral fixation was made and during the su...