Neurocysticercosis: Actuality in diagnosis and treatment;Neurocysticercose: Actualites diagnostiques et therapeutiques

Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 513-522

  Sailler, L ^a   Marchou, B ^a   Auvergnat, J Ch ^a  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

Albendazole; CT scan; MR imaging; Neurocysticercosis; Praziquantel

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PRAZIQUANTEL;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 0030015520     PISSN: 0399077X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0399-077X(96)80234-4     Document Type: Review

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