Cysticercosis - Clinical classification based on imaging studies

Cysticerosis is a pleomorphic disease in which the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis greatly vary in relation to the location, number, and stage of the lesions. A new classification if proposed that includes the information gathered by magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography, supplemented by immunodiagnostic studies and clinical data. The different clinical entities produced by cysticerosis are grouped by the frequency and location of the parasites, including valuable data as the number and stage of the lesions as well as the degree of th inflammatory response from the host to the parasite. In this way, the disease can be individualized to define the reliability of diagnostic studies and to design specific therapeutic approaches that depend on the characteristics that the disease acquires in every location.