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Chronic Long‐Standing Headache due to Neurocysticercosis
Author(s) -
Finsterer Josef,
Li Mei,
Rasmkogeler Kartrin,
Auer Herbert
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2006.00386_4.x
Subject(s) - neurocysticercosis , taenia solium , albendazole , medicine , eosinophilia , lymphocytic pleocytosis , immunology , pathology , cysticercosis , pleocytosis , csf pleocytosis , gastroenterology , cerebrospinal fluid , surgery , virus , encephalitis
A 35‐year‐old Chinese woman presented with a 26‐year history of persistent headache, relieved only by diuretics. Characteristic CT findings, peripheral eosinophilia, lymphocytic CSF pleocytosis, elevated CSF IgG, positive oligoclonal bands, antibody‐positive ELISA, and Western blot results with Taenia solium antigen, and a favorable response to albendazole led to the diagnosis of neurocysticercosis.