Racemose neurocysticercosis [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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=====Racemose neurocysticercosis=====

Racemose [[neurocysticercosis]] is characterized by abnormal, large growth of cystic membrane without scolex
((Bickerstaff ER, Cloake PC, Hughes B, Smith WT. The racemose form of cerebral cysticercosis. Brain. 1952;75:1–18.))
((Rabiela MT, Rivas A, Flisser A. Morphological types of Taenia solium cysticerci. Parasitol Today. 1989;5:357–359.)).

Racemose form usually occurs in the ventricles or basal cisterns
((Bickerstaff ER, Cloake PC, Hughes B, Smith WT. The racemose form of cerebral cysticercosis. Brain. 1952;75:1–18.))
((Rabiela MT, Rivas A, Flisser A. Morphological types of Taenia solium cysticerci. Parasitol Today. 1989;5:357–359.)), and is rare in the [[brain parenchyma]] because there is not enough room in the brain parenchyma for growing of large cysts
((García HH, Del Brutto OH. Imaging findings in neurocysticercosis. Acta Trop. 2003;87:71–78.)).

However, the case of Kim et al., was a cerebellar racemose variety with large, multilobulated grapes-like cysts without scolex
((Kim SW, Kim MK, Oh SM, Park SH. Racemose cysticercosis in the cerebellar
hemisphere. J Korean Neurosurg Soc. 2010 Jul;48(1):59-61. doi:
10.3340/jkns.2010.48.1.59. Epub 2010 Jul 31. PubMed PMID: 20717513; PubMed
Central PMCID: PMC2916149.)).