[Neurocysticercosis in an 8-year-old girl]

We report about an 8-year-old girl with signs of elevated intracranial pressure. X-ray, CT and MRT scan showed an inner hydrocephalus as well as an intracranial calcification. By western blot analysis a Taenia solium cysticercosis could be diagnosed. In spite of spontaneous remission of the symptoms we treated with Praziquantel. Resection of the cyst was not necessary. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems of cysticercosis are discussed.