Pseudotumoral form of cerebral schistosomiasis mansoni

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 200-207

  Braga, Moisés Heleno Vieira ^a,b   De Carvalho, Gervásio Teles Cardoso ^a,b   Brandão, Rafael Augusto Castro Santiago ^a,b   De Albuquerque, Lucas Alverne Freitas ^c   De Lima, Franklin Bernardes Faraj ^a,b   Borlot, Paulo Estevão Wandekoken ^c   Raso, Jair Leopoldo ^d  

^a Faculty of Medical Science of Minas Gerais   (Brazil)

^b Santa Casa Hospital   (Brazil)

^c Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte ^*  (Brazil)

^d Hospital Biocor   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerebral schistosomiasis; Neuroschistosomiasis; Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; PHENYTOIN; PRAZIQUANTEL; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; APPETITE DISORDER; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIOTOMY; HEADACHE; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSEUDOTUMOR; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMAL GRANULOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CRANIOTOMY; EPILEPSY, TONIC-CLONIC; FRONTAL LOBE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PRAZIQUANTEL; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMICIDES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051726630     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2010.12.002     Document Type: Review

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