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Case report A 9 year old female child presented with fever, headache, myalgia for 15 days, vomiting and altered sensorium for 2 days. She was well nourished, disoriented, febrile, had meningeal signs. CSF examination was unremarkable. CT brain was normal. She was treated as viral meningoencephalitis and improved. Her subsequent admission with similar complaints showed grossly elevated CSF proteins and lymphocytes, MRI brain showed solitary ring enhancing lesion in brain and treated as tuberculous meningitis with tuberculoma. She did not show improvement, presented back with multiple nodules all over the body. Ultra-sonogram revealed them to be subcutaneous and muscular cysticercoses. MRI showed disseminated cysticercoses involving all areas of brain. She was immunocompetent. She was started on oral prednisolone followed by albendazole for a month. She showed improvement, nodules subsided, had convulsions in follow-up visits, and is on regular anticonvulsants.

Disseminated cysticercosis in a child: a rare occurrence presenting as meningitis