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Neurology
; 63(2): 388-91, 2004 Jul 27.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15277648
RESUMO
Thirteen patients with Schistosoma mansoni myelopathy are reported. Neurologic syndromes included acute areflexic flaccid paraplegia (three), thoracic myelopathy with hyperreflexia and Babinski sign (six), and a cauda equina syndrome (four). Inflammatory granulomas and a schistosome worm in a leptomeningeal vein of the spinal cord were observed in the one patient coming to necropsy.