An adult female patient presented with an exclusively spinal leptomeningeal infestation by cysticercosis (restricted to the cauda equina), verified in surgery. The rôle of the vertebral vein system in the spread of cysticercotic larvae is discussed. A commentary on the possibility that cysticercosis of the batal cisterns may be due to ascending migration of primarily spinal cysticerci, as originally proposed by Isamat de la Riva, is stated.