A case of neurocysticercosis - Differential diagnostic aspects

Functional Neurology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-41

  Reparon, Christian ^a   Jansen, Jürgen ^b   Brück, Wolfgang ^b   Verheggen, Raphaela ^b   Zimmerer, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CSF findings; Cysticercus cellulosae; Differential diagnosis; Neurocysticercosis

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTICERCUS CELLULOSAE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SARCOIDOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; BRAIN; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; TAENIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032939323     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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