Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection mimicking a spinal cord tumor
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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | 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 |
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| Institution: | Chiang Mai University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | 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 cases. We report on what we believe is the first case of A. cantonensis infection diagnosed by biopsy in a living patient. The spinal cord was biopsied because of the unusual clinical presentation of a myelopathy without meningeal symptoms, together with a mass lesion that was clinically and radiologically diagnosed as a spinal cord tumor. |
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