Nervous complications in cerebral cysticercosis
- Author:
Hoang Van Thuan
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
cerebral cysticercosis
- MeSH:
Cysticercosis/complications;
Taenia;
Brain
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2004;480(5):30-31
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Studty was conducted on 42 patients (32 males and 10 females, aged 14-55 years old) with taenia soluincyst in brain. The cyst was common at the age 20-49 years old, female 23.81% and male 76.19%. There was a diversity of nervous syndromes in both 2 hemispheres of brain, the most were intern-cerebral high pressure 95.2% and epilepsy 54.74%. Active forms of cyst accounted for 73.81%, needed for treating CT images of skull and brain showed a dispersion of the cyst in both 2 hemispheres of brain, consisted with the clinical symptoms.
