Clinical and Imaging Characteristics of Cerebral Schistosomiasis

Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-295

  Wu, Liquan ^a   Wu, Mingcan ^b   Tian, Daofeng ^a   Chen, Shijie ^b   Liu, Baohui ^a   Chen, Qianxue ^a   Wang, Junmin ^a   Cai, Qiang ^a   Ji, Baowei ^a   Wang, Long ^a   Zhang, Shenqi ^a   Ruan, Dong ^a   Zhu, Xiaonan ^a   Guo, Zhentao ^a  

^a RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGTZE UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebral schistosomiasis; Clinical characteristics; Diagnosis; Epilepsy; Imagining; Schistosoma japonicum; Surgery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ADULT; ANTHELMINTICS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRAZIQUANTEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 84857645269     PISSN: 10859195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12013-011-9294-1     Document Type: Article

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