Neurocysticercosis

British Medical Journal

Volumn 326, Issue 7388, 2003, Pages 511-512

  Sotelo, Julio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARASITOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL; TAENIA SOLIUM; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; POVERTY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; POVERTY AREAS;

EID: 0037426022     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7388.511     Document Type: Editorial

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