Isolated neurocysticercosis of the spine presenting with low back pain and cauda equina syndrome: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cysticercosis, caused by Cysticercus cellulosae, is one of the common parasitic diseases that can affect the central nervous system (neurocysticercosis, NCC). Isolated involvement of cysticercosis of the spine, without the involvement of the brain, has been very rarely reported.

Case presentation

This report presented a case, who was presenting with low back pain with radiation and cauda equina syndrome (CES). On MRI, the patient was found to have a subarachnoid cystic lesion at the level of lumbosacral vertebrae. Under neurosurgery, the patient underwent L5/S1 laminectomy, decompression, and excision of the cyst. On histopathological examination, the patient was diagnosed of having Cysticercosis. Immediately after surgery, the patient had neurological deteriora

SUBMITTER: Roy SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9325787 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature