A 36-year-old Indian man presented with a generalized tonic-clonic sei
zure. The diagnosis of neurocysticercosis was suspected by the presenc
e of multiple cystic and nodular cerebral lesions on MRI, and was conf
irmed by serological studies (ELISA). He was treated with albendazole
during one week at the daily dose of 15 mg/kg. This case illustrates t
he advantage of MRT over CT for the detection and the therapeutical fo
llow-up of neurocysticercosis. Moreover, the MRI findings can be corre
lated to the anatomical stage of neurocysticercosis, proposed by Escob
ar (1983); four stages are described : I=vesicular stage (living larva
e), II=vesicular colloidal stage (degenerating larvae), III and IV, gr
anular nodular and nodular calcified inactive stages repectively.