Lumbar intramedullary spinal schistosomiasis presenting as progressive paraparesis: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Kim, Albert H ^a,b   Maher, Cormac O ^b   Smith, Edward R ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system infection; Schistosomiasis; Spine tumor; Transverse myelitis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIATION; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEROLOGY; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; SYMPTOM; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BACK; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; PATHOLOGY; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; PARAPARESIS; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 33646827329     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000210223.25400.C7     Document Type: Article

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