[Clinical picture of cerebral cysticercosis].

The author studied 82 patients with brain cystocercosis (male--48 and females 34 cases). Cystocercosis was most frequently encountered in individuals from 21--50 years of age. The rural population constituted 74% while the urban--26%. The report contains data on the characteristic symptoms of brain cystocercosis and its differential diagnostical signs with brain tumors. Besides such states as epileptical, hypertensive, occlusional, psychopathological annd meningoencephalitic the authors distinguish the meningeal form which proceeds as a chronic remittent serous meningits.