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  A Comprehensive Enterprise-Grade Guide for Neuroradiologists and Clinicians on Neurocysticercosis Diagnosis, Staging, and Multimodal Management Clinical Hook A 32-year-old male presents to the emergency department following a sudden onset of a generalized tonic-clonic seizure, accompanied by severe refractory headache, spatial disorientation, and vivid auditory and visual hallucinations. Routine blood panels are unremarkable, but a detailed travel history reveals a recent backpacking trip through endemic regions in South America. In an acute clinical setting presenting with sudden-onset focal neurological deficits and seizures, treating physicians must look beyond primary idiopathic epilepsy or standard intracranial neoplasms. When a non-contrast brain MRI reveals multiple thin-walled cystic lesions situated precisely at the gray-white matter junction—each harboring a discrete, eccentric nodule—the clinical picture locks into a definitive diagnosis of neurocysticercosis (NCC). Mi...