Affiliations: Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Post
Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India | Department of Neuroanaesthesiology King George's
Medical University, Lucknow, India | Department of Pathology Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate
Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Note: [] Correspondence: Dr. Raj Kumar, Department of Neurosurgery,
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow –
226014, U.P., India. Tel.: +91 522 2668700, 2668800; Fax: +91 (522) 2668129
& 2668017; E-mail: rajkumar@sgpgi.ac.in
Abstract: A 16 years aged female presented with gradually increasing swelling
of left temporalis muscle associated with episodic headache. Computerized
tomography scan of head revealed a defined enhancing soft tissue mass in left
temporal region without an intracranial extension and bone invasion. The
specimen of excised mass turned out to be cysticercosis of muscle on
histological examination. A possibility of muscular cysticercosis presenting as
pseudotumor of calvarium can not be ruled out.
