A Case of Neurocysticercosis in Diyarbakir

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Onder Ozturk Pinar AYDIN OZTURK Unal Ozturk

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Pinar AYDIN OZTURK
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Health Sciences, Diyarbakır Gazi Yasargil Education and Research Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey

A B S T R A C T

Neurocysticercosis is a major parasitic disease of the central nervous system, affecting endemic areas worldwide. It spreads through intermediary hosts, pigs and eventually men to his definitive host: humans. It causes lesions in the CNS which have different evolutive stages and can be asymptomatic or clinically evident. Imaging studies play an important role in the diagnosis of the disease and in its appropriate control

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Fri 09, Aug 2019
Accepted: Mon 26, Aug 2019
Published: Thu 05, Sep 2019

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© 2023 Pinar AYDIN OZTURK. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.04.09