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Volume 347:1117 October 3, 2002 Number 14
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Case 16-2002: Neurocysticercosis

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by Thaler, D. E.
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To the Editor: Case 16-2002 (May 23 issue)1 describes a 41-year-old woman with generalized headache and a hemorrhagic lesion on neuroimaging; on brain biopsy, her condition was diagnosed as cerebral venous thrombosis. Several factors, however, suggest that the cerebral venous thrombosis may have been secondary to a separate, underlying process.

Given the patient's country of origin (El Salvador) and her "frequent trips back" there, along with the presence of separate intracerebral calcifications, the possibility of neurocysticercosis should have been considered in the differential diagnosis and appropriate serologic tests performed. Supporting this possibility are the absence of risk factors for cerebral . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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