Bowen Adam, Grullon Jason, Polavarapu Hanish, Morrison John
Internal Medicine, Mclaren Greater Lansing Hospital, Lansing, USA.
Neurosurgery, Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, USA.
Cureus. 2025 Apr 25;17(4):e82992. doi: 10.7759/cureus.82992. eCollection 2025 Apr.
Neurocysticercosis (NC), a parasitic infection caused by , is an increasingly recognized cause of seizures in the United States, particularly among individuals from endemic regions. This report describes a diagnostically challenging case of a 51-year-old Vietnamese woman who presented with new-onset seizures and was initially treated for NC following craniotomy. Despite antiparasitic therapy, persistent symptoms and progressive imaging changes prompted further intervention, ultimately revealing a metastatic ovarian serous adenocarcinoma adjacent to the prior NC lesion. This rare instance of collision metastases, with an uncommon instance of ovarian cancer metastasizing to active NC, underscores the complexity of differentiating NC from neoplastic disease, emphasizing the need for a broad differential in patients with intracranial lesions and risk factors for both infectious and malignant processes.
神经囊尾蚴病(NC)是由[此处原文缺失病原体信息]引起的一种寄生虫感染,在美国,它越来越被认为是癫痫发作的一个病因,尤其是在来自流行地区的人群中。本报告描述了一例诊断具有挑战性的病例,一名51岁的越南女性出现新发癫痫发作,开颅术后最初被诊断为NC并接受治疗。尽管进行了抗寄生虫治疗,但持续的症状和影像学的进展性变化促使进一步干预,最终发现了一个与先前NC病变相邻的转移性卵巢浆液性腺癌。这种罕见的碰撞性转移病例,即卵巢癌转移至活跃的NC,凸显了区分NC与肿瘤性疾病的复杂性,强调了对于有颅内病变且存在感染和恶性病变风险因素的患者需要进行广泛鉴别诊断。