Isolated Intramedullary Lumbar Spine Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Occurrence and Review of Literature

Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system. Spinal cysticercosis is a rather rare clinical occurrence. Intramedullary (IM) spinal NCC is rarer still. Furthermore, cases of IM-NCC at lumbar levels are few and far between. We present a case of a 35-ye...

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Autores principales: Dhar, Anil, Dua, Sanjeev, Singh, Hershdeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8674092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34926816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1739118
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description Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system. Spinal cysticercosis is a rather rare clinical occurrence. Intramedullary (IM) spinal NCC is rarer still. Furthermore, cases of IM-NCC at lumbar levels are few and far between. We present a case of a 35-year-old male patient who was diagnosed to have IM-NCC at L2-3 level and was managed surgically with no recurrence at 2 years of follow-up. A systematic literature review (1992–2020) highlights it to be only the third case reported with exclusive lumbar involvement
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spelling pubmed-86740922021-12-17 Isolated Intramedullary Lumbar Spine Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Occurrence and Review of Literature Dhar, Anil Dua, Sanjeev Singh, Hershdeep Surg J (N Y) Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system. Spinal cysticercosis is a rather rare clinical occurrence. Intramedullary (IM) spinal NCC is rarer still. Furthermore, cases of IM-NCC at lumbar levels are few and far between. We present a case of a 35-year-old male patient who was diagnosed to have IM-NCC at L2-3 level and was managed surgically with no recurrence at 2 years of follow-up. A systematic literature review (1992–2020) highlights it to be only the third case reported with exclusive lumbar involvement Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8674092/ /pubmed/34926816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1739118 Text en The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, permitting unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction so long as the original work is properly cited. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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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Isolated Intramedullary Lumbar Spine Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Occurrence and Review of Literature
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title_short Isolated Intramedullary Lumbar Spine Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Occurrence and Review of Literature
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