Cerebral and spinal schistosomiasis

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 666-674

  Carod Artal, Francisco Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cerebral schistosomiasis; Neuroschistosomiasis; Praziquantel; Schistosoma haematobium; Schistosoma japonicum; Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosomiasis; Spinal schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; DEXAMETHASONE; GADOLINIUM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXAMNIQUINE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPILEPSY; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMIGRATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MYELITIS; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSCHISTOSOMIASIS; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEIZURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPINAL CORD INFECTION; SPINAL SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPINE SURGERY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; WORM EGG;

EID: 84870478950     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-012-0305-4     Document Type: Article

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