Intramedullary Spinal Neurocysticercosis Presenting as Brown-Sequard Syndrome

Cysticercosis is an emerging disease in the United States. Neurocysticercosis may rarely cause disease within the spinal cord, but the occurrence of such pathology can produce debilitating symptoms for patients. We present the second report in the literature of intramedullary spinal neurocysticercos...

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Autores principales: Rice, Brian, Perera, Phillips
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3541882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316264
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.10.6909
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description Cysticercosis is an emerging disease in the United States. Neurocysticercosis may rarely cause disease within the spinal cord, but the occurrence of such pathology can produce debilitating symptoms for patients. We present the second report in the literature of intramedullary spinal neurocysticercosis presenting with a Brown-Sequard syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-35418822013-01-11 Intramedullary Spinal Neurocysticercosis Presenting as Brown-Sequard Syndrome Rice, Brian Perera, Phillips West J Emerg Med Case Report Cysticercosis is an emerging disease in the United States. Neurocysticercosis may rarely cause disease within the spinal cord, but the occurrence of such pathology can produce debilitating symptoms for patients. We present the second report in the literature of intramedullary spinal neurocysticercosis presenting with a Brown-Sequard syndrome. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine 2012-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3541882/ /pubmed/23316264 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.10.6909 Text en the authors
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title_short Intramedullary Spinal Neurocysticercosis Presenting as Brown-Sequard Syndrome
title_sort intramedullary spinal neurocysticercosis presenting as brown-sequard syndrome
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