Severe cysticercal meningitis: clinical and imaging characteristics.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
; 82(1): 121-5, 2010 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
In disease-endemic areas, severe cysticercal meningitis (SCM) is characterized by intense inflammatory cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and negative bacterial and fungal cultures. There have been no systematic studies of SCM. We characterized patients with SCM and compare them with neurocysticercosis (NC) patients with mild CSF abnormalities by conducting a nine-year retrospective review at a neurological referral center. Two groups of patients were compared group A, those with severe CSF pleocytosis > 1,000 cells/mm(3) (n = 12), and group B, those with CSF pleocytosis
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Neurocisticercose
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2010
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