Oscar H. Del Brutto • Héctor H. García

2014

Neurocysticercosis—defined as the infection of the central nervous system and its covering by the larval stage of the tapeworm Taenia solium —is a major public health challenge for most of the developing world and is increasingly recognized in developed countries due to mass immigration, refugee movements, international travelling, and overseas business affairs. Known since ancient civilizations as a disease of swine and recognized as a human ailment during the Renaissance, it has not been until the past few decades when the introduction of modern neuroimaging techniques and reliable serologic tests allowed the preoperative recognition of neurocysticercosis and increased our knowledge on the many clinical forms of presentation of this parasitic disease.