Neurocysticercosis: Current knowledge and advances

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 453-459

  Shandera, Wayne X ^a   Kass, Joseph S ^b  

^a Section of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; NICLOSAMIDE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; HISPANIC; HOST; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLAMMATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SANITATION; SEIZURE; SEROLOGY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; SYMPTOM; TAENIA SOLIUM; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VACCINATION;

BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS;

EID: 33750997579     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-006-0046-3     Document Type: Review

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