[Paraplegia and bilharziasis. A propos of 4 cases (including 2 confirmed cases of bilharzial myelitis]. / Paraplégie et bilharziose. A propos de quatre observations (dont deux de myélite bilharzienne certaine).

Four observations of paraplegia of bilharzians are presented. In two of them the anatomical proof of medullar localization of parasitosis was obtained, once in vivo, only once after a post-mortem. Medical study enables us to spot 55 cases of bilharzian paraplegia, of which 25 sufficiently explicit on the clinical point of view, indicated medullar parasitosis. A parasitosis diagnosis must especially therefore be sought out with the greatest care so that the specific and remarkably active treatment may be started as soon as possible.