Cysticercosis surgery

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ahmed Younes M.B.B.CH [2]

Surgery is not the first line of treatment except in ocular cysticercosis and other certain cases of neurocysticercosis.

• Surgical intervention is much more likely to be needed in cases of intraventricular, racemose, or spinal neurocysticercosis.
• Treatments includes direct excision of ventricular cysts, shunting procedures, and removal of cysts via endoscopy.

• In ophthalmic disease, surgical removal is necessary for cysts within the eye itself while antihelminth drugs with steroids alone might be sufficient to treat cysts outside globe.

• In general, subcutaneous disease does not need specific therapy. Painful or bothersome cysts can be surgically excised.

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