A new plain film finding in cysticercosis.
Lytic lesions of the skull due to cysticercosis are described. Encysted larvae in the subarachnoid space eroded the inner table of the skull in a 10-year-old Guatemalan male. In an area with endemic cysticercosis infections, this diagnosis should be considered when round, lytic defects are demonstrated in a skull radiograph.
Ruiz
M E
ME
Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Haughton
V M
VM
D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*