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Bem, C., Garcia, H.H., Evans, C., Gonzalez, A.E., Verastequi, M., Tsang, V.C. and Gilman, R.H. (1999) Magnitude of the Disease Burden from Neurocysticercosis in a Developing Country. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 29, 1203-1209.
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• TITLE: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) vs Central Nervous System (CNS) Tuberculoma in Children—Dilemma over Clinico-Radiological Diagnosis?

  AUTHORS: Bharat-Bhushan Sharma, Shashi Sharma

  KEYWORDS: Neurocysticercosis, Tuberculomas, Seizures, CT, MRI

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Pediatrics, Vol.6 No.3, September 16, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Background: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) and central nervous system (CNS) tuberculomas often overlap in clinical presentation and imaging. Though the aetio-pathology entirely differs in both the scenarios but there is great confusion in their clinico-radiological evaluation as the findings and appearances are similar in many ways. The stress should be laid out over the salient features of each entity in the background of their presentation. The study was conducted to highlight the differentiation of the clinico-radiological findings in both the entities. Material and Methods: Ten patients between 5 - 15 years (mean age 10.4 years) with complaints of headache and with or without seizures had undergone MRI alone or with CT examinations. Basic sequences of T1W, T2W, T2W FLAIR and T1W contrast studies were carried out in all the cases. CT was carried out in only three cases and contrast was given in two cases. Results: Eight patients were having ring enhancing lesions in post contrast studies in MRI and two had only cystic lesions ranging from 1 - 3 cm in diameter. Conclusion: Seven cases having tuberculomas were confirmed by both the modalities with one case inconclusive. Two cases were diagnosed as neurocysticercosis as per the results. The reasonable achievable target was the goal to differentiate between NCC and tuberculomas in the brain and it was achieved. Contrast MRI and spectroscopy brought out many findings for the distinct features in many cases.