Short course of oral prednisolone on disappearance of lesion and seizure recurrence in patients of solitary cysticercal granuloma with single small enhancing CT lesion: An open label randomized prospective study

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 55, Issue JUNE, 2007, Pages 419-424

  Kishore, D ^a   Misra, S ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; PREDNISOLONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PARALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PARALYSIS; PREDNISOLONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249776046     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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