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Neurocysticercosis presenting as psychiatric illness
V Agarwal1, P Kumar, R K Chadda
1Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, PO Box 9520, Dilshad Garden, Delhi-110095, India.
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
|January 5, 2002
Abstract:
Neurocysticercosis is a common neuroparasitosis. Presentation with psychiatric symptoms is uncommon in neurocysticercosis. The present paper describes a patient who presented with mutism, neglect of personal care and incontinence in a psychiatric setting and investigations revealed diagnosis of neurocysticercosis. The case report highlights the possible misdiagnoses of a case of neurocysticercosis as psychiatric illness and mutism as an uncommon presentation of neurocysticercosis.