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It is important to establish the correct diagnosis, since a surgical approach is beneficial only when the fourth ventricle is obstructed by a large cyst. In this paper, the clinical differences between fourth ventricle cysts and ventriculitis are presented in 16 patients with neurocysticercosis who were subjected to surgical exploration of the posterior fossa. Patients with a large cyst occluding the fourth ventricle had a short evolution of signs and symptoms, Bruns' syndrome, and discrete or no inflammatory reaction in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Patients with ventriculitis generally had a longer duration of signs and symptoms, Parinaud's syndrome, a consistently positive complement fixation test to cysticerci, and more cells and proteins in the CSF. 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