Neurocysticercosis: Evaluation with advanced magnetic resonance techniques and atypical forms

Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 127-144

  Do Amaral, Lázaro Luís Faria ^a   Ferreira, Rafael Martins ^a   Da Rocha, Antônio José ^b   Fortes Ferreira, Nelson Paes Diniz ^a  

^a HOSPITAL BENEFICÊNCIA PORTUGUESA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Santa Casa de Misericordia de Goiania   (Brazil)

Author keywords

3D CISS; Cysticercosis; MRI; Neurocysticercosis; Parasites; Subarachnoid space

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CISTERNOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCLEROSIS; STEADY STATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 33644840418     PISSN: 08993459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rmr.0000189106.78146.98     Document Type: Review

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