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Case Reports
. 1995 Aug;97(3):256-8.
doi: 10.1016/0303-8467(95)00044-k.

Cysticercosis mimicking brain tumor: the role of albendazole as a diagnostic tool

O H Del Brutto  1 , L A Quintero
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Cysticercosis mimicking brain tumor: the role of albendazole as a diagnostic tool

O H Del Brutto et al. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 1995 Aug.

Abstract

We report a patient with seizures and a single ringlike enhancing lesion on MRI that resembled a low-grade glioma. The patient received a diagnostic trial with albendazole on the assumption that this lesion could be a cysticercus. Follow-up showed resolution of the brain lesion in 4 weeks. Albendazole administration to patients with single ringlike enhancing lesions may obviate unnecessary surgical procedures in selected cases.

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