CEREBRAL CYSTICERCOSIS TREATED WITH ALBEN DAZOLE - FOLLOW-UP WITH MRI

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.