Kalra Veena, Mishra Devendra, Suri Ashish, Seth Rachna, Garg Ajay
Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Pediatr. 2009 Apr;76(4):420-3. doi: 10.1007/s12098-009-0023-3. Epub 2009 Feb 10.
Neurocysticercosis is the commonest CNS parasitic disease worldwide but cysticercal meningitis and intraventricular lesions are relatively rare, especially in Indian patients. We herein report a girl with cysticercal meningitis that remained undiagnosed and the patient later presented with unilateral hydrocephalous due to Foramen of Monroe block by an intraventricular cyst. The need for CSF examination with Wright-Giemsa staining to avoid missing CSF eosinophilia is discussed.
神经囊尾蚴病是全球最常见的中枢神经系统寄生虫病，但囊尾蚴性脑膜炎和脑室内病变相对少见，尤其是在印度患者中。我们在此报告一名患有囊尾蚴性脑膜炎但未被诊断出来的女孩，该患者后来因脑室内囊肿阻塞Monro孔而出现单侧脑积水。文中讨论了进行脑脊液检查并采用瑞氏-吉姆萨染色以避免漏诊脑脊液嗜酸性粒细胞增多的必要性。
