Abstract:

Objective：To investigate the diagnosis and surgical treatment of cerebral ventricle cysticercosis．Methods：A retrospective analysis of 17 patients who were hospitalized in our department from September 2005 to June 2010 with cerebral ventricle cystieercosis was performed．Four cases were lateral ventricles eysticercosis and 9 cases were fourth ventricle cysticercosis，all 1 3 cases were resected by surgery．Two cases of lateral ventricles cysticercosis were treated with ventriculoscope．All 1 5 patients above were treated by dehydration
and antiparasitic measures postoperatively．Other 2 eases were third ventricles cysticercosis and they were treated with conservative antiparasitic measure．Results：All 15 patients treated with operation were successfldly performed，whose symptoms of intracranial hypertension were immediately relieved after operative procedures．There were no nervous lesion newly found for 3-24 months postoperative follow—up．The
conditions of two patients with no symptoms of intracranial hypertension were much improved with consmwative antiparasitic measures．Conclusion：MRI is valuable in diagnosis and treatment of cerebral ventricle cysticercosis．Surgical method is important for the treatment of cerebral venlricle cysticercosis．

Key words: neurocysficercosis, cerebral ventricles, diagnosis, surgery