Cerebral Schistosomiasis - An Unusual Presentation of an Intracranial Mass Lesion
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Cerebral schistosomiasis--an unusual presentation of an intracranial mass lesion.
Schistosomiasis is an intravascular trematode infection affecting at least 200 million people worldwide1. Trematodes are parasitic worms that are flattened dorsoventrally. Their suckers (trematos, Greek ‘holes’), act as organs of attachment. Schistosome worms are blood flukes with a complex life cycle involving freshwater snails that act as intermediate hosts, and the bloodstream of higher orde...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100006624