Recurrent brainstem transient ischemic attack due to neurocysticercosis: A treatable cause

European Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 174-175

  Lee, Sang Ik ^a   Chang, Gregory Youngnam ^b,c  

^a Wallace Memorial Baptist Hospital   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; PRAZIQUANTEL; STEROID;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOKING; CYST; DIPLOPIA; EGG; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEAD TILTING; HEADACHE; HOST; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFESTATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LARVA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NECK PAIN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NYSTAGMUS; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; PUPIL REFLEX; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; TAENIA SOLIUM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VERTIGO;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN STEM; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0031716914     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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