Reduced percentage of neurocysticercosis cases among patients with late-onset epilepsy in the new millennium

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1254-1256

  Del Brutto, Oscar H ^a   Del Brutto, Victor J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICA KENNEDY   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE SANTIAGO DE GUAYAQUIL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Adult onset epilepsy; Cysticercosis; Epilepsy; Late onset epilepsy; Neurocysticercosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYPTOGENIC EPILEPSY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; ONSET AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84866899428     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2012.03.033     Document Type: Article

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