Degenerating neurocysticercosis cysts: Differential diagnosis with cerebral metastasis;Neurocysticercose cérébrale au stade de dégénérescence : diagnostic différentiel des métastases cérébrales

Revue Neurologique

Volumn 164, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 948-952

  Coulibaly, B ^a   Gautier, G ^a   Fuentes, S ^a   Ranque, S ^a   Bouvier, C ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cysticercosis; Epilepsy; Neurocysticercosis; T nia solium

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CORTICOSTEROID; STEROID; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEROLOGY; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TUMOR; GUADELOUPE; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GUADELOUPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60749127355     PISSN: 00353787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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