Isolated intramedullary spinal cord cysticercosis

Neurocysticercosis is a major cause of epilepsy in developing countries. Cysticercal involvement of the spinal cord is rare even in endemic areas and accounts for 0.7 to 5.85% of all cases. We present a 19-year-old man who presented with weakness of both lower limbs and urinary complaints in the for...

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Autores principales: Qazi, Zeeshan, Ojha, Bal Krishna, Chandra, Anil, Singh, Sunil Kumar, Srivastava, Chhitij, Patil, Tushar B.
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/PMC4271389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25540546
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.145209
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author Qazi, Zeeshan
Ojha, Bal Krishna
Chandra, Anil
Singh, Sunil Kumar
Srivastava, Chhitij
Patil, Tushar B.
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description Neurocysticercosis is a major cause of epilepsy in developing countries. Cysticercal involvement of the spinal cord is rare even in endemic areas and accounts for 0.7 to 5.85% of all cases. We present a 19-year-old man who presented with weakness of both lower limbs and urinary complaints in the form of straining of micturition with increased frequency, in whom preoperative MRI revealed a well-defined cystic lesion in dorso-lumber cord extending from D11 to L1 level, which on pathological examination was found to be intramedullary cysticercosis.
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spelling pubmed-42713892014-12-24 Isolated intramedullary spinal cord cysticercosis Qazi, Zeeshan Ojha, Bal Krishna Chandra, Anil Singh, Sunil Kumar Srivastava, Chhitij Patil, Tushar B. J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Neurocysticercosis is a major cause of epilepsy in developing countries. Cysticercal involvement of the spinal cord is rare even in endemic areas and accounts for 0.7 to 5.85% of all cases. We present a 19-year-old man who presented with weakness of both lower limbs and urinary complaints in the form of straining of micturition with increased frequency, in whom preoperative MRI revealed a well-defined cystic lesion in dorso-lumber cord extending from D11 to L1 level, which on pathological examination was found to be intramedullary cysticercosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4271389/ /pubmed/25540546 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.145209 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice 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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