Short report: A calcified Taenia solium granuloma associated with recurrent perilesional edema causing refractory seizures: Histopathological features

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 460-463

  Ooi, Winnie W ^a   Wijemanne, Subhashie ^a   Thomas, Christine B ^a   Quezado, Martha ^b   Brown, Charles R ^c   Nash, Theodore E ^c  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; ETIRACETAM; OXACARBAZEPINE; PHENYTOIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTICERCUS (CESTODE LARVA); EDEMA; EPILEPTIC STATE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOSIS; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MICROGLIOSIS; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERILESIONAL EDEMA; SEIZURE; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CALCINOSIS; EDEMA; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PIRACETAM; SEIZURES; TAENIA SOLIUM; VALPROIC ACID; YOUNG ADULT;

TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 79961058795     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0221     Document Type: Article

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