Intraventricular Taenia solium neurocysticercosis: A report of three cases

Journal of the Nepal Medical Association

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 192-195

  Pant, B ^a   Devleesschauwer, Brecht ^b   Shrestha, P ^a   Shrestha, I ^a   Praet, N ^c   Dorny, P ^b,c  

^a Annapurna Neurological Institute and Allied Sciences   (Nepal)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Intraventricular neurocysticercosis; PCR RFLP; Taenia solium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CASE REPORT; CHEST INFECTION; COMMUNICATING HYDROCEPHALUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CYST FLUID; DISORIENTATION; ENDOSCOPIC THIRD VENTRICULOSTOMY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTRAVENTRICULAR NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PAPILLEDEMA; PHOTOPHOBIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TAENIA SOLIUM; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBRAL VENTRICULOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; TAENIA SOLIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866412758     PISSN: 00282715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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