Cysticercosis cerebri mistaken for cerebral syphilis

This paper deals with two cases of patients suffering from cerebral cysticercosis, who were previously being treated as neuroluetic. The first case was of a patient aged 35 who suffered from epileptic seizures since the age of 12. Due to changes of the cerebrospinal fluid, he was submitted to an antiluetic treatment and also to malaria therapy. In spite of the antisyphilitic treatment the diseasse went slowly on, bearing a psychiatric and neurological syndrome of the frontal lobe and also [...]