Isolated Intramedullary Lumbar Spine Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Occurrence and Review of Literature

Abstract: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic infection of the central nervous system. Spinal cysticercosis is a rather rare clinical occurrence. Intramedullary (IM) spinal NCC is rarer still. Furthermore, cases of IM-NCC at lumbar levels are few and far between. We present a case of a 35-year-old male patient who was diagnosed to have IM-NCC at L2-3 level and was managed surgically with no recurrence at 2 years of follow-up. A systematic literature review (1992–2020) highlights it to be only the third case reported with exclusive lumbar involvement

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Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Isolated Intramedullary Lumbar Spine Neurocysticercosis: A Rare Occurrence and Review of Literature ; volume:07 ; number:04 ; year:2021 ; pages:e327-e336
The surgery journal ; 07, Heft 04 (2021), e327-e336

Contributor
Dhar, Anil
Dua, Sanjeev
Singh, Hershdeep

DOI
10.1055/s-0041-1739118
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022031315280083311429
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Dua, Sanjeev
  • Singh, Hershdeep

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