Extraparenchymal neurocysticercosis: Demographic, clinicoradiological, and inflammatory features.

ABSTRACT:

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 by ExPNCC are herein described and compared with those of ParNCC patients.

Methodology and principal findings

429 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of neurocysticercosis, attending the Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, a tertiary reference center in Mexico City, from 2000 through 2014, were included. Demographic information, signs and symptoms, radiological patterns,

SUBMITTER: Marcin Sierra M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5479594 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature