[2 patients with neurocysticercosis]

Cysticercosis of the CNS, caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, was diagnosed on the basis of serological and imaging examination in two patients, a woman aged 50 and a man aged 40 years. The former patient suffered from aphasia, headache and epileptic attacks, the latter mostly from epilepsy. Cysticercosis of the CNS occurs mainly in the tropics but is occasionally observed in the Netherlands in people who have been to the tropics, such as the patients reported. Both ultimately recovered after drug therapy which included praziquantel.