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Calcified Neurocysticercus, Perilesional Edema, and Histologic Inflammation
Here, we present the second report of the histopathology of a Taenia solium calcification giving rise to perilesional edema. This has important implications, because if perilesional edema lesions are inflammatory in character, immunosuppressive or anti-inflammatory medications, not just antiepileptic drugs alone, may be useful to prevent or treat recurring episodes in such patients.
Author Notes
Financial support: The support for this study was in part received from the Intramural National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Authors' addresses: Theodore E. Nash, National Institutes of Health, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, Bethesda, MD, E-mails: tnash@niaid.nih.gov or tnash@nih.gov. Luther A. Bartelt, University of Virginia, Infectious Disease, Charlottesville, VA, E-mails: lab2za@virginia.edu or luther.bartelt@gmail.com. Poonum S. Korpe, University of Virginia, Department of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, E-mail: psk9p@virginia.edu. Beatriz Lopes and Eric R. Houpt, University of Virginia, Pathology, Charlottesville, VA, E-mails: MSL2E@virginia.edu and erh6k@virginia.edu or ERH6K@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu.