Cysticercosis mimicking brain tumor: the role of albendazole as a diagnostic tool.
We report a patient with seizures and a single ringlike enhancing lesion on MRI that resembled a low-grade glioma. The patient received a diagnostic trial with albendazole on the assumption that this lesion could be a cysticercus. Follow-up showed resolution of the brain lesion in 4 weeks. Albendazole administration to patients with single ringlike enhancing lesions may obviate unnecessary surgical procedures in selected cases.
Del Brutto
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Department of Neurology, Luis Vernaza Hospital, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Quintero
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D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005910:Glioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000473:pathology
D000871:Anthelmintics; D015766:Albendazole