Single parenchymal brain cysticercus: Relationship between age of patients and evolutive stage of parasites

Neurological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 967-970

  Del Brutto, Victor J ^a   Del Brutto, Oscar H ^a,b   Ochoa, Elio ^c   García, Héctor H ^d,e  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICA KENNEDY   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ESPÍRITU SANTO   (Ecuador)

^c Hospital Teodoro Maldonado Carbo   (Ecuador)

^d UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NEUROLÓGICAS   (Peru)

Author keywords

Cysticercal granuloma; Cysticercosis; Neurocysticercosis; Taenia solium metacestode

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CYSTICERCOID; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; PARASITES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869186783     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000100     Document Type: Article

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