INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE AND HYDROCEPHALUS CAUSED BY INTRAVENTRICULAR PARASITIC GRANULOMA SUGGESTING CEREBRAL SPARGANOSIS

A 67-year-old female farmer presented with acute loss of consciousness . Computed tomograms showed a calcified mass in the cavum septi pelluc idi with intraventricular haemorrhage and obstructive hydrocephalus. T he patient became fully conscious after urgent external ventriculostom y and subsequently underwent craniotomy for the excision of the mass. Pathological examination of the mass demonstrated a granuloma surround ing a degenerating larva compatible with Spirometra mansonoides whose mimicking an intraventricular tumour has not been reported before.