Affiliations: Department of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging, Pt. B.
D. Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Health
Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India | Department of Pediatrics, Pt. B. D. Sharma Post
Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Rohtak,
Haryana, India | Department of Biotechnology & Molecular
Medicine, Pt. B. D. Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Note: [] Correspondence: Dhara B. Dhaulakhandi, Department of
Biotechnology & Molecular Medicine, Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate
Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana,
India. Tel.: +91 1262 211109; Fax: +91 1262 211109; E-mail:
[email protected]
Abstract: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is known to have varied presentations
ranging from simple psychosis to stroke and death. While NCC may affect any
part of brain or spinal cord, endocrinopathies due to NCC involving
hypothalamus and pituitary gland are very rare. A 7-year-old child presented
with polyuria and polydipsia for 1 year. After ruling out peripheral diabetes
insipidus, a magnetic resonance imaging scan of the brain was done which showed
a small cystic lesion in the proximal pituitary stalk. Similar cystic lesions
were also seen in other areas of the brain. Cerebrospinal fluid enzyme linked
immunosorbent assay for cysticercosis was positive. Such a case of NCC
involving pituitary stalk and presenting as central diabetes insipidus is, to
the best of our knowledge, the first report of both the location and clinical
presentation of NCC in children.
