[Current aspects of neurocysticercosis. Clinical and pathological report on 3 cases]

This is a clinical and pathological report on three cases (one 48-year-old male, one 57-year-old female, and one 59-year-old male) of neurocysticercosis where postmortem examinations were made between 1972 and 1974. In all of these three cases invasion of the body by the larva of Taenia solium and, more specifically, of the interpeduncular cisterns had led to chronic lymphocytic and granulomatous leptomeningitis and severe hydrocephalus. Complicating the disease picture in one case each were an occlusive granular ependymitis in the aqueduct and a nonspecific endangiitis. The great importance of liquor eosinophilia to the clinical diagnosis of neurocysticercosis is again demonstrated by reference to these cases. The complement fixation reaction is recommended as the most reliable method of diagnosing. This should be should in all ases of etiologically uncertain chronic leptomeningitis