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Are there clinical circumstances in which there is a role for steroids in treatment of calcified neurocysticercosis associated with perilesional edema and seizures?

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Infectious Disease · Yale New Haven Hospital

Yes. Steroids would be routinely used if his perilesional edema. The question presumes that all of the intracranial lesions are calcified but there can be intraparenchymal cysts in different stages of dying or calcification.

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