Magnetisation transfer magnetic resonance imaging demonstration of perilesional gliosis--relation with epilepsy in treated or healed neurocysticercosis

Lancet. 1999 Jul 3;354(9172):44-5. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(99)00881-8.

Abstract

We describe a case of healed neurocysticercosis with seizures, in which magnetisation transfer contrast showed a large area of presumed perilesional gliosis not visible on conventional spin echo magnetic resonance imaging.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Albendazole / therapeutic use*
  • Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use*
  • Calcinosis / diagnosis
  • Calcinosis / drug therapy
  • Cysticercosis / diagnosis
  • Cysticercosis / drug therapy*
  • Epilepsy, Complex Partial / diagnosis
  • Epilepsy, Complex Partial / drug therapy*
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology
  • Gliosis / diagnosis
  • Gliosis / drug therapy*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*

Substances

  • Anticonvulsants
  • Albendazole