PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Balraj Dhesi AU - Sumit J Karia AU - Naghme Adab AU - Sujit Nair TI - Imaging in neurocysticercosis AID - 10.1136/practneurol-2014-000972 DP - 2015 Apr 01 TA - Practical Neurology PG - 135--137 VI - 15 IP - 2 4099 - http://pn.bmj.com/content/15/2/135.short 4100 - http://pn.bmj.com/content/15/2/135.full SO - Pract Neurol2015 Apr 01; 15 AB - Neurocysticercosis is a parasitic neurological infection caused by the ingestion of larvae from the adult tapeworm Taenia solium. We describe a man who presented with generalised tonic-clonic seizures. He had been previously diagnosed with epilepsy in Malawi, where he had emigrated from 2 years before this episode. An MRI was performed to further investigate the cause of his seizures, as no previous imaging had been performed. His initial MRI showed multiple characteristic cystic lesions in keeping with neurocysticercosis.