Distinctive serial magnetic resonance changes in a young woman with rapidly evolved neurocysticercosis, with positron emission tomography results

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 198-201

  Nagayama, M ^a   Shinohara, Y ^a   Nagakura, K ^a   Izumi, Y ^a   Takagi, S ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CYSTICERCOSIS; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BRAIN EDEMA; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEVER; HAND PARESTHESIA; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PET SCANNER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROLOGY; TENDON REFLEX; WHITE MATTER LESION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 0029684307     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon199663198     Document Type: Article

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