Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report

Leishmaniasis, as a vector-borne disease, is transmitted by sandfly and caused by Leishmania protozoa. Brain involvement rarely occurs in visceral leishmaniasis. In this paper, a rare case of pons involvement by visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is reported. A 54 yr old man from Southwest of Iran (Yasuj)...

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Autores principales: SEDAGHATTALAB, Moslem, AZIZI, Arsalan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29963097
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description Leishmaniasis, as a vector-borne disease, is transmitted by sandfly and caused by Leishmania protozoa. Brain involvement rarely occurs in visceral leishmaniasis. In this paper, a rare case of pons involvement by visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is reported. A 54 yr old man from Southwest of Iran (Yasuj) presented to the Emergency Ward with a 3-wk history of headache (continuous, throbbing, and general), fever, chills, weakness, anorexia, and weight loss.
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spelling pubmed-60195902018-06-29 Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report SEDAGHATTALAB, Moslem AZIZI, Arsalan Iran J Parasitol Case Report Leishmaniasis, as a vector-borne disease, is transmitted by sandfly and caused by Leishmania protozoa. Brain involvement rarely occurs in visceral leishmaniasis. In this paper, a rare case of pons involvement by visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is reported. A 54 yr old man from Southwest of Iran (Yasuj) presented to the Emergency Ward with a 3-wk history of headache (continuous, throbbing, and general), fever, chills, weakness, anorexia, and weight loss. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6019590/ /pubmed/29963097 Text en Copyright© Iranian Society of Parasitology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report
title Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report
title_full Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report
title_short Brain Parenchyma (pons) Involvement by Visceral Leishmaniasis: A Case Report
title_sort brain parenchyma (pons) involvement by visceral leishmaniasis: a case report
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