Late onset temporal lobe epilepsy with MRI evidence of mesial temporal sclerosis following acute neurocysticercosis: Case report

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 59, Issue 2 A, 2001, Pages 255-258

  Kobayashi, Eliane ^a   Guerreiro, Carlos A M ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute neurocysticercosis; Hippocampal atrophy; Mesial temporal sclerosis; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; SCLEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0035374557     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2001000200021     Document Type: Article

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