Thirteen-year-old boy admitted to our clinic because of intractable occipital lobe epilepsy and underwent surgical resection of epileptogenic focus at the left occipital lobe. Histopathological examinations revealed a parasitic infestation, neurocystocercosis. After surgery the patient was seizure- free at short-term follow-up and referred to the outpatient clinic of Infectious Diseases for futher medical treatment of taenia solium. A case of intractable occipital lobe epilepsy due to cysticersosus was discussed with possible pitfalls in diagnosis.

Keywords: Epilepsy, neurocystocercosis, occipital lobe