Neurocysticercosis with a single brain lesion in Germany: a case report

Neurocysticercosis is rare in Western Europe and a high degree of physician awareness is necessary for diagnosis. We describe a case of Neurocysticercosis with a single brain lesion acquired in Germany in which only surgical removal and subsequent histological examination allowed diagnosis whereas d...

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Autores principales: Luessi, Felix, Sollors, Janina, Frauenknecht, Katrin, Schwandt, Eike, Mueller, Harald D, Stoeter, Peter, Blum, Johannes, Thoemke, Frank
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184690
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8692
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author Luessi, Felix
Sollors, Janina
Frauenknecht, Katrin
Schwandt, Eike
Mueller, Harald D
Stoeter, Peter
Blum, Johannes
Thoemke, Frank
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Sollors, Janina
Frauenknecht, Katrin
Schwandt, Eike
Mueller, Harald D
Stoeter, Peter
Blum, Johannes
Thoemke, Frank
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description Neurocysticercosis is rare in Western Europe and a high degree of physician awareness is necessary for diagnosis. We describe a case of Neurocysticercosis with a single brain lesion acquired in Germany in which only surgical removal and subsequent histological examination allowed diagnosis whereas diagnostic investigation yielded no pathological findings.
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spelling pubmed-28271092010-02-24 Neurocysticercosis with a single brain lesion in Germany: a case report Luessi, Felix Sollors, Janina Frauenknecht, Katrin Schwandt, Eike Mueller, Harald D Stoeter, Peter Blum, Johannes Thoemke, Frank Cases J Research article Neurocysticercosis is rare in Western Europe and a high degree of physician awareness is necessary for diagnosis. We describe a case of Neurocysticercosis with a single brain lesion acquired in Germany in which only surgical removal and subsequent histological examination allowed diagnosis whereas diagnostic investigation yielded no pathological findings. BioMed Central 2009-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2827109/ /pubmed/20184690 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8692 Text en Copyright ©2009 Luessi et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Blum, Johannes
Thoemke, Frank
Neurocysticercosis with a single brain lesion in Germany: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20184690
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