Diagnostic criteria for neurocysticercosis: Some modifications are needed for Indian patients

Neurology India

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-177

  Garg, Ravindra Kumar ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

CT; Cysticercosis; Epilepsy; MRI; Seizures; Taenia solium; Tuberculoma

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GRANULOMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; MYCOSIS; NAUSEA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; VOMITING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4344671809     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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