[Radioclinical aspects of cerebral and muscular cysticercosis: 20 cases]

We report a series of 20 cases of cysticercosis. Cysticercosis is a rather wide-spread disease in North Vietnam with clinical signs such as myalgia, headache, epileptic seizures. It is often seen in male adults 30 to 60 years old, not in children. CT-scan is a good method for detecting cerebral cysticercosis at different stages of evolution: cysts with scolex, calcified cysts or both simultaneously, which is the evidence of several successive infestations. Muscular cysticerci can be detected by palpation or by radiography when they are calcified. Cerebral and muscular locations of cysticercosis are nearly always simultaneous, therefore we must always explore these both seats by CT scan (for the brain) and by radiography (for the muscles and the subcutaneous tissue).