Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature

Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system worldwide. However, Cysticercosis affecting the spine is considered extremely rare. We report two cases of spinal cysticercosis with review of literature.

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Autores principales: Pant, Ishita, Chaturvedi, Sujata, Singh, Gurbachan, Gupta, Sanjeev, Kumari, Rima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27891042
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-8237.193261
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spelling pubmed-51113342016-11-25 Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature Pant, Ishita Chaturvedi, Sujata Singh, Gurbachan Gupta, Sanjeev Kumari, Rima J Craniovertebr Junction Spine Case Report Neurocysticercosis is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system worldwide. However, Cysticercosis affecting the spine is considered extremely rare. We report two cases of spinal cysticercosis with review of literature. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5111334/ /pubmed/27891042 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-8237.193261 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pant, Ishita
Chaturvedi, Sujata
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Gupta, Sanjeev
Kumari, Rima
Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature
title Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature
title_full Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature
title_fullStr Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature
title_short Spinal cysticercosis: A report of two cases with review of literature
title_sort spinal cysticercosis: a report of two cases with review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5111334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27891042
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-8237.193261
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