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Multiple lesions on CT brain scan: tuberculosis or neurocysticercosis?

Anuradha Bose1, Jolly Chandran, Rekha Cherian.   

Abstract

An 8-year-old girl with miliary tuberculosis, receiving appropriate treatment, presented with clinical features suggestive of increased intracranial pressure. She tested positive with the highly sensitive and specific1 enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay for cysticercosis.

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Year:  2009        PMID： 21686912      PMCID： PMC3028307          DOI： 10.1136/bcr.06.2008.0155

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  BMJ Case Rep        ISSN： 1757-790X


  3 in total

1.  An enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay and glycoprotein antigens for diagnosing human cysticercosis (Taenia solium).

Authors:  V C Tsang; J A Brand; A E Boyer
Journal:  J Infect Dis       Date:  1989-01       Impact factor: 5.226

Review 2.  Proposed diagnostic criteria for neurocysticercosis.

Authors:  O H Del Brutto; V Rajshekhar; A C White; V C Tsang; T E Nash; O M Takayanagui; P M Schantz; C A Evans; A Flisser; D Correa; D Botero; J C Allan; E Sarti; A E Gonzalez; R H Gilman; H H García
Journal:  Neurology       Date:  2001-07-24       Impact factor: 9.910

3.  Brain CT and MRI findings in 100 consecutive patients with intracranial tuberculoma.

Authors:  Mohammad Wasay; Bhojo A Kheleani; Mahesh K Moolani; Jazia Zaheer; Margaret Pui; Sheema Hasan; Suhail Muzaffar; Rohit Bakshi; Arif R Sarawari
Journal:  J Neuroimaging       Date:  2003-07       Impact factor: 2.486
  3 in total

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