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Current Diagnostic Criteria for Neurocysticercosis

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dc.contributor.author Guzman, Carolina
dc.contributor.author García Lescano, Héctor Hugo
dc.contributor.author Cysticercosis working Grp Peru
dc.date.accessioned 2021-10-04T23:00:56Z
dc.date.available 2021-10-04T23:00:56Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/9808
dc.description.abstract Neurocysticercosis (NCC) causes significant neurological morbidity around the world, and is the most common preventable factor for epilepsy in adults. It is endemic in most developing countries, and also diagnosed with some frequency in industrialized countries because of travel and migration. The clinical manifestations of NCC are extremely variable and may include almost any neurological symptom, depending on the number of lesions, location, size and evolutive stage of the infecting parasitic larvae and the immune response of the host. Thus, the diagnosis of NCC relies mostly on neuroimaging and immunological tests. Despite being a disease with a known etiology, the lack of specificity of clinical manifestations and auxiliary examinations makes its diagnosis difficult. In an attempt for developing a standard diagnosis approach, a chart of diagnostic criteria for NCC was initially published in 1996, and revised in 2001 and 2017. This chart of diagnostic criteria systematized the diagnosis of NCC and became widely used worldwide. This manuscript describes the structure of the chart, the principles behind the changes for each revision, as well as the context of its use and potential for improvement en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Dove Medical Press
dc.relation.ispartofseries Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject cysticercosis en_US
dc.subject neurocysticercosis en_US
dc.subject Taenia solium en_US
dc.subject diagnosis en_US
dc.subject epilepsy en_US
dc.subject epidemiology en_US
dc.title Current Diagnostic Criteria for Neurocysticercosis en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.2147/RRTM.S285393
dc.relation.issn 1179-7282


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