Open AccessNeurocysticercosis: A five-year experience
Author(s) -
Radoslava Doder,
N Madle-Samardzija,
G Čanak,
J Vukadinov,
Vesna Turkulov,
Siniša Sević
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0212523d
Subject(s) - medicine , neurocysticercosis , taenia solium , albendazole , disease , cysticercosis , cerebrospinal fluid , serology , gastroenterology , surgery , pediatrics , pathology , immunology , antibody
Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic disease with wide distribution which is caused by larval forms of Taenia Solium. Our aim was to: show the most common clinical manifestations of patients with NCC and their importance in diagnosing this disease; examine the value of serologic diagnostic methods in blood and cerebrospinal fluid; to emphasize the value of radiological diagnostic methods--CT and MRI of the brain, in relation to the applied protocol of therapy, as well as the impact of anti-parasitic therapy on the outcome of this disease.