Giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: A rare cause of childhood seizure

We report a 9-year-old girl who presented with focal seizures, hemiparesis, headache, vomiting and bilateral optic atrophy. CT scan revealed a giant solitary cyst in the left parietal lobe. Serology and histopathology of the excised cyst confirmed the diagnosis of neurohydatidosis which is a rare ca...

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Autores principales: Arora, Shilpa Khanna, Aggarwal, Anju, Datta, Varsha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891913
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131495
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description We report a 9-year-old girl who presented with focal seizures, hemiparesis, headache, vomiting and bilateral optic atrophy. CT scan revealed a giant solitary cyst in the left parietal lobe. Serology and histopathology of the excised cyst confirmed the diagnosis of neurohydatidosis which is a rare cause of childhood seizure.
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spelling pubmed-40400432014-06-02 Giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: A rare cause of childhood seizure Arora, Shilpa Khanna Aggarwal, Anju Datta, Varsha J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report We report a 9-year-old girl who presented with focal seizures, hemiparesis, headache, vomiting and bilateral optic atrophy. CT scan revealed a giant solitary cyst in the left parietal lobe. Serology and histopathology of the excised cyst confirmed the diagnosis of neurohydatidosis which is a rare cause of childhood seizure. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4040043/ /pubmed/24891913 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131495 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: A rare cause of childhood seizure
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title_full Giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: A rare cause of childhood seizure
title_fullStr Giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: A rare cause of childhood seizure
title_full_unstemmed Giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: A rare cause of childhood seizure
title_short Giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: A rare cause of childhood seizure
title_sort giant primary cerebral hydatid cyst: a rare cause of childhood seizure
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4040043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24891913
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1817-1745.131495
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