Orbital and adnexal cysticercosis

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 322-333

  Pushker, Neelam ^a   Bajaj, Mandeep S ^a,b   Betharia, Subhash M ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Adnexa; Albendazole; Cysticercosis; Orbit; Surgery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; IMIDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; STEROID; TOXIN;

ADNEXA DISEASE; AGE; ALOPECIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVA; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RELEASE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYELID; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; JAUNDICE; LACRIMAL GLAND; LIFE CYCLE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; ORBIT CYST; PREVALENCE; PTOSIS; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERTIGO; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; CYSTICERCOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EYE INFECTIONS, PARASITIC; EYELID DISEASES; HUMANS; LACRIMAL APPARATUS DISEASES; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORBITAL DISEASES;

EID: 0036798480     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2002.00550.x     Document Type: Review

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