A case of neurocysticercosis suggestive of a reinfection, 20 years after the initial onset

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-23

  Nakajima, Makoto ^a   Tashima, Kazuhiro ^a   Hirano, Teruyuki ^a   Nakamura Uchiyama, Fukumi ^a   Nawa, Yukifumi ^a   Uchino, Makoto ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Larva migrans; Neurocysticercosis; Reinfection; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ANTICESTODAL AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; PARASITE ANTIBODY; STEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVULSION; CYSTICERCUS CELLULOSAE; FEVER; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHILIPPINES; REINFECTION; SOUTHEAST ASIA; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVEL;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 0036389359     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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