Surgical removal of a live worm by stereotactic targeting in cerebral sparganosis

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 164-167

  Nobayashi, Misato ^a,b   Hirabayashi, Hidehiro ^a   Sakaki, Toshisuke ^a   Nishimura, Fumihiko ^a   Fukui, Hiroshi ^a   Ishizaka, Shigeaki ^a   Yoshikawa, Masahide ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral sparganosis; Spirometra mansoni; Stereotaxis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEROLOGY; SPIROMETRA; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPARGANOSIS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33645289373     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.164     Document Type: Article

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