Isolated Intramedullary Spinal Cysticercosis: A Case Report with Review of Literature of a Rare Presentation

A number of parasitic infections can involve the central nervous system of which neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common one in developing countries. Most often the brain is involved, spine and spinal cord involvement is very rare and intramedullary involvement is rarer still. Here, we report a...

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Autores principales: Maste, Praful Suresh, Lokanath, Yadhu Kasetti, Mahantshetti, Shambhulingappa Shrishilappa, Soumya, S.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29492150
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.180894
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description A number of parasitic infections can involve the central nervous system of which neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common one in developing countries. Most often the brain is involved, spine and spinal cord involvement is very rare and intramedullary involvement is rarer still. Here, we report a 30-year-old male patient, with intramedullary NCC of dorsal spinal cord.
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spelling pubmed-58208752018-02-28 Isolated Intramedullary Spinal Cysticercosis: A Case Report with Review of Literature of a Rare Presentation Maste, Praful Suresh Lokanath, Yadhu Kasetti Mahantshetti, Shambhulingappa Shrishilappa Soumya, S. Asian J Neurosurg Case Report A number of parasitic infections can involve the central nervous system of which neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common one in developing countries. Most often the brain is involved, spine and spinal cord involvement is very rare and intramedullary involvement is rarer still. Here, we report a 30-year-old male patient, with intramedullary NCC of dorsal spinal cord. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5820875/ /pubmed/29492150 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1793-5482.180894 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery 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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title_full Isolated Intramedullary Spinal Cysticercosis: A Case Report with Review of Literature of a Rare Presentation
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title_short Isolated Intramedullary Spinal Cysticercosis: A Case Report with Review of Literature of a Rare Presentation
title_sort isolated intramedullary spinal cysticercosis: a case report with review of literature of a rare presentation
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