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Intramedullary spinal cysticercosis

Department of Geriatric Medicine (Drs. Akiguchi and Kameyama), Central Clinical Laboratory (Dr. Fujiwara), Kyoto University School of Medicine, and Kyoto Senbai Hospital (Drs. Matsuyama and Muranaka), Kyoto, Japan.

Intramedullary cysticercosis of the spinal cord is rare; there have been only 26 previous cases. We describe a patient with low back pain, paraparesis, lumbosacral sensory loss, and signs of meningeal irritation. The clinical diagnosis was spinal cord tumor, but at surgery there was a cysticercus cyst w.ithin the lumbosacral cord. Careful search did not reveal the parasite in any other part of the body. This is the first case of spinal cysticercosis reported in Japan.

Addreas reprint requests to Dr. Akiguchi, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Kyoto University School of Medicine, 54, Shogoin Kawara-machi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, Japan.

Accepted for publication April 20, 1979.

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