Third ventricular cysticercal cyst mimicking a colloid cyst: case report

Neurosurgery. 1995 Dec;37(6):1200-3. doi: 10.1227/00006123-199512000-00021.

Abstract

We describe a case of a 28-year-old Latino man who presented with signs and symptoms of raised intracranial pressure and radiographic evidence of a third ventricular cystic lesion. The cyst was removed via a transcallosal approach; the histology was noted to be a cysticercal lesion. The radiographic and histological features of this interesting case are discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cerebral Ventricles / pathology
  • Cerebral Ventricles / surgery*
  • Cysticercosis / diagnosis
  • Cysticercosis / pathology
  • Cysticercosis / surgery*
  • Cysts / diagnosis
  • Cysts / pathology
  • Cysts / surgery
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Intracranial Pressure / physiology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male