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Dementia due to neurocysticercosis

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Link to WHO Definition

Dementia due to neurocysticercosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/985310807

Dementia due to neurocysticercosis, a parasitic disease of the central nervous system which is associated with symptomatic seizures, epilepsy, focal neurologic deficits, headache and cognitive impairment. There should be supportive clinical, imaging and laboratory features of the disease without another identifiable cause of cognitive dysfunction.