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Brain, Vol. 124, No. 4, 839-840, April 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

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SOLITARY CYSTICERCUS GRANULOMA:THE DISAPPEARING LESION.

By Vedantam Rajshekhar and Mathew J. Chandy. 2000. London: Sangham Books Ltd. Price £9.95. Pp. 169. ISBN 0-86311-815-1.

Dr I. M. S. Sawhney

Department of Neurology, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, UK

Single small enhancing CT lesions (SSECTLs) are the most common cause of symptomatic epilepsy in the Indian subcontinent. This entity, recognized ever since the introduction of the CT scan in India in the late 1970s, had eluded diagnosis for almost a decade. The stereotactic biopsies of these lesions by the editors proved them to be solitary cysticercus granulomas (SCGs). This monograph deals comprehensively with SCGs, from historical background and clinical presentation, through neuroimaging to management and outcome. All the 13 chapters except one are contributions from C. M. C. Vellore.

The introduction to the subject gives a good . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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