Extraparenchymal neurocysticercosis: Demographic, clinicoradiological, and inflammatory features
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Extraparenchymal neurocysticercosis: Demographic, clinicoradiological, and inflammatory features
BACKGROUND Extraparenchymal neurocysticercosis (ExPNCC), an infection caused by Taenia solium cysticerci that mainly occurs in the ventricular compartment (Ve) or the basal subarachnoid space (SAb), is more severe but less frequent and much less studied than parenchymal neurocysticercosis (ParNCC). Demographic, clinical, radiological, and lumbar cerebrospinal fluid features of patients affected...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1935-2735
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005646