Severe form of radiculo - Myelo - Neuropathy with meningo - Encephalitis secondary to Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection: Unusual corpus callosal lesions and serial magnetic resonance imaging findings

Neurology India

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 414-418

  Nalini, Atchayaram ^a   Ramakrishna, Anil ^a   Dekumoy, Paron ^b   Kumar, Raju Ravi ^a   Pakdee, Wallop ^b   Saini, Jitender ^a   Hegde, Vinay S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Albendazole; angiostongyliasis; angiostrongylus cantonensis; meningoencephalitis; myelo radiculo neuropathy

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOSE; STEROID;

ADULT; ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EOSINOPHILIA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LOSS OF APPETITE; LOWER ABDOMINAL PAIN; MALAISE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; STEROID THERAPY; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

EID: 84884652579     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.117613     Document Type: Article

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