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We present a 25-year-old woman who suffered from 9 years of refractory epilepsy and was misdiagnosed with glioma and subjected to surgery. The postoperative pathology confirmed granuloma, and the tumor-like foci reappeared 3 months later. Along with the \u201ctunnel sign\u201d on MRI, cerebral sparganosis was suspected and confirmed by positive serum and cerebrospinal fluid antibodies against <jats:italic>Spirometra mansoni<\/jats:italic>. The patient visited us after a failure of four cycles of praziquantel treatment, recurrent seizures and hemiplegia with basal ganglia foci. Craniotomy was not carried out until the larva moved to the superficial lobe on follow-up MRIs, and pathology revealed sparganosis granuloma. The patient became seizure-free and recovered myodynamia but had long-lasting cognitive dysfunction due to severe brain damage. This case indicated the importance of tunnel signs and moving tumor-like foci on MRI as diagnostic clues of cerebral sparganosis. An early diagnosis is vitally important to avoid severe neural dysfunction by the long-living and moving larvae. 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