[Neurocysticercosis in childhood. I. Clinical and laboratory diagnosis].

Abstract:

:Clinical and laboratory findings among 34 children (age range from 15 months to 13 years) with neurocysticercosis were reviewed. The main symptoms were: intracranial hypertension, 21 cases (62%); epilepsy, 20 cases (59%); hemiplegia, 4 cases (12%). Computed tomography (CT) in 33 children showed typical brain active cysts in 26 patients (79%) and calcifications in 2 (6%). The complement fixation reaction or the indirect immunofluorescent test for cysticercus antibody were positive in CSF in 77% (20 out of 26 patients) and serum in 78% (18 out of 23 patients). CSF pleocytosis was found in 57% of the cases (15/26 patients) with eosinophil cells in 27% (7/26 patients). The most efficient diagnostic test was CT scan of the head, and was confirmed immunologically by measurement of cysticercus antibody titers in CSF and serum.

journal_name

Arq Neuropsiquiatr

authors

Bruck I,Antoniuk SA,Wittig E,Accorsi A

doi

10.1590/s0004-282x1991000100006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-03-01 00:00:00

pages

43-6

issue

1

eissn

0004-282X

issn

1678-4227

journal_volume

49

pub_type

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