Neurocysticercosis case with tuberculoma-like epithelioid granuloma strongly suspected by serology and confirmed by mitochondrial DNA

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Maeda, Takuya ^a,b   Ito, Akira ^c   Sako, Yasuhito ^c   Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^c   Oyaizu, Naoki ^b   Odawara, Takashi ^b   Iwamoto, Aikichi ^b   Fujii, Takeshi ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; EPITHELIOID CELL GRANULOMA; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; JAPAN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; TAENIA SOLIUM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 79960737865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.04.2011.4125     Document Type: Article

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