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Neurocysticercosis in Ceara State, northeastern Brazil: a review of 119 cases Sousa AQ; Sa HL; Queiroz TR; Horta WG; Pearson RDAm J Trop Med Hyg 1998[Jun]; 58 (6): 759-62Relatively little is known about the occurrence of neurocysticercosis in northeastern Brazil. There have been no published reports from the state of Ceara, but a review of the records at the Hospital Sao Jose in Fortaleza, Brazil identified 119 patients with neurocysticercosis diagnosed between January 1988 and April 1994. Patients came from 43 municipalities in Ceara. Their ages ranged from five to 74 years; the greatest number of cases were in persons 10-40 years of age; 63% were males. Seizures were the presenting complaint in 64% of the patients and headache in 22%. Two patients, each with several hundred intracranial lesions, presented with mental status changes; one was initially given the clinical diagnosis of viral meningoencephalitis. Computed tomography scans showed that 44% of the patients had five or more lesions. Cysts were found throughout the brain. The parietal lobe was the most frequent site of involvement; 85% of patients had one or more lesions there. The brain stem was involved in 8%. There was no consistent association between the severity of the clinical abnormalities and the radiologic findings. Computed tomography of the thighs was done in 10 persons; cysts were identified in nine.|Adolescent[MESH]|Adult[MESH]|Age Distribution[MESH]|Aged[MESH]|Brain Diseases/diagnosis/*epidemiology[MESH]|Brain/diagnostic imaging/parasitology[MESH]|Brazil/epidemiology[MESH]|Child[MESH]|Child, Preschool[MESH]|Cysticercosis/diagnosis/*epidemiology[MESH]|Female[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Magnetic Resonance Imaging[MESH]|Male[MESH]|Middle Aged[MESH]|Morbidity[MESH]|Muscle, Skeletal/diagnostic imaging/parasitology[MESH]|Retrospective Studies[MESH]|Sex Distribution[MESH]|Thigh[MESH]|Tomography, X-Ray Computed[MESH] |
