Pathological findings in SSECTLs
| Gross | Histological findings | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavitary | Hyalinised nodule | Parasite | Wall of inflammatory lesion | Adjacent cerebral parenchyma | |||||||||
| Present | Absent | Granulomatous inflammation of parasitic aetiology | Chronic inflammation without granulomas | Eosinophilic infiltrate | Gliosis | Perivascular chronic inflammation | |||||||
| Without calcified vacuoles | With calcified vacuoles | ||||||||||||
| Cystic | 16 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| Firm | 29 | 26 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 21 | 23 | 18 | ||
| Fragments | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Total | 54 | 49 | 5 | 28 | 20 | 6 | 42 | 7 | 42 | 37 | 33 | ||