Outcome of short-term antiepileptic treatment in patients with solitary cerebral cysticercus granuloma

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 174-177

  Verma, A ^a,b   Misra, S ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Epilepsy; Symptomatic seizures; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN CYSTICERCOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCUS; DRUG EFFICACY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SOLITARY CEREBRAL CYSTICERCUS GRANULOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAENIA SOLIUM; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CALCINOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645233352     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.2005.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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