Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection mimicking a spinal cord tumor

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Petjom S., Chaiwun B., Settakorn J., Visrutaratna P., Rangdaeng S., Thorner P.S.
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2014
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036294985&partnerID=40&md5=188463c164e1af27ca36c5c24378ec20; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12112054; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/2517

Angiostrongylus cantonensis is the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis and meningoencephalitis. Almost all cases are self-limiting and are diagnosed by cerebrospinal fluid eosinophilia and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; pathology reports are restricted to postmortem samples from lethal...