Disseminated cysticercosis with pulmonary and cardiac involvement

Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 310-313

  Jain, Bharat ^a   Sankhe, Shilpa ^a   Agrawal, Mukta ^a   Naphade, Prashant ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Cardiac; disseminated cysticercosis; intraocular; pulmonary

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BACK; BRAIN; BRAIN CYST; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISSEMINATED CYSTICERCOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EPIDURAL SPACE; EXOPHTHALMOS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYELID; FOREARM; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEADACHE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEMISPHERE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEG; LUNG; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NECK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS; SEIZURE; SOFT TISSUE; STEROID THERAPY; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THIGH; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING;

EID: 78650482227     PISSN: 09713026     EISSN: 19983808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.73532     Document Type: Article

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