Corticosteroid withdrawal precipitates perilesional edema around calcified Taenia solium cysts

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 919-923

  Mejia, Rojelio ^a,c   Nash, Theodore E ^b,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; ETIRACETAM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CYST; CYSTICERCOSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; GUATEMALA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LIMB WEAKNESS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PONS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SYLVIAN FISSURE; TAENIA SOLIUM; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN EDEMA; CALCINOSIS; CYSTICERCOSIS; CYSTICERCUS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SEIZURES; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 84888583820     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0350     Document Type: Article

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