Clinical spectrum of 500 children with neurocysticercosis and response to albendazole therapy

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 207-213

  Singhi, Pratibha ^a   Ray, Munni ^a   Singhi, Sunit ^a   Khandelwal, N ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 0034079807     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307380001500401     Document Type: Article

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