title: A rare presentation of intracranial cysticercosis involving the cerebellopontine angle.
abstract: Intracranial cysticercosis involving the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) is rare. Here we report a patient with intracranial cysticercosis in the left CPA; the initial diagnosis of the lesion was epidermoid cyst or cystic glioma. The patient subsequently underwent total lesion removal through a left suboccipital approach; however, postoperative histopathological examination showed the tumor to be an intracranial cysticercosis. The patient's symptoms improved dramatically after microsurgery and praziquantel administration. Rare infection caused by cysticercosis involving the CPA should be highlighted in the differential diagnosis of intracranial space-occupying lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Jianshe East Road 1, Zhengzhou, Henan 450052, China.
authors.forename: Laijun
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Fuyou
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Siqi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Zhenyu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Lixin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Hongwei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020019:Neurocysticercosis / Q000150:complications*