Evaluation of role of steroid alone and with albendazole in patients of epilepsy with single-small enhancing computerized tomography lesions

Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-43

  Sharma, Shri Ram ^a,b   Agarwal, Atul ^a   Kar, A M ^a   Shukla, Rakesh ^a   Garg, R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

^b Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

Albendazole; Computed tomography; Epilepsy; Neurocysticercosis; Outcome; Steroid

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGISTRATION; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247277125     PISSN: 09722327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.31484     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Tandon PN, Bhargava, S. CNS tuberculosis lessons learnt from CT studies. Neurol India 1980;28:225-30.
2. Rajshekhar V. Etiology and management of single small CT lesions inpatients with seizures: Understanding a controversy. Acta Neurol Scand 1991;84:465-70.
3. Chopa JS, Sawhney IM, Suresh N, Prabhakar N, Dhand UK, Suri S. Vanishing CT lesions in epilepsy. J Neurol Sci 1992;107:40-9.
4. Garg RK, Nag D. Single ring- or disk-enhancing computed tomographic lesion in Indian children and adolescents after first seizure. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1997;157:632-4.
5. Rajshekhar V, Haran RP, Prakash GS, Chandy MJ. Differentiating solitary small cysticercus granulomas and tuberculomas in patients with epilepsy. Clinical and computerized tomographic criteria. J Neurosurg 1993;78:402-7.
6. Sethi PK, Kumar BR, Madan VS, Mohan V. Appearing and disappearing CT scan abnormalities and seizures. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1985;48:866-9.
7. Padma MV, Behari M, Misra NK, Ahuja GK. Albendazole in single CT ring lesions in epilepsy. Neurology 1994;44:1344-6.
8. Rajshekhar V. Albendazole therapy of persistent, solitary cysticercus granuloma in patients with seizure. Neurology 1993;43:1238-40.
9. Baranwal AK, Singhi PD, Khandelwal N, Singhi SC. Albendazole therapy in children with focal seizures and single small computed tomographic lesions. A randomized placebo-controlled, double blind trial. Peditr Infect Dis J 1998;17:696-700.
10. Mall RK, Agarwal A, Garg RK, Kar AM, Shukla R. Short course of Prednisolone in Indian patients with solitary Cysticercus granuloma and new Onset seizures. Epilepsia 2003;44:1397-401.
11. Rajshekhar V, Chandy MJ. Validation of diagnostic criteria for solitary cerebral cysticercus granuloma in patients presenting with seizures. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 1997;96:76-81.
12. Escobar A. The pathology of neurocysticercosis. In: Cysticercosis of the central nervous system. Rodriguez-Carabazal E, Taveras JM, editors. CC Thomas: Springfield, IL; 1983. p. 27-54.
13. Del Brutto OH, Sotelo J. Neurocysticercosis: An update. Rev Infect Dis 1988;10:1075-87.
14. Del Brutto OH. The use of albendazole in patients with single lesions enhanced on contrast CT. N Engl J Med 1993;328:356-7.
15. Singhi P, Ray M, Singhi S, Khandelwal N. Clinical spectrum of 500 Children with neurocysticercosis and response to albendazole therapy. J Child Neurol 2000;15:207-13.