Neurological manifestations of visceral leishmaniasis
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Neurological manifestations in a patient with visceral leishmaniasis.
Accepted 21 January 1998 A 20-year-old man with visceral leishmaniasis receiving sodium stibogluconate therapy presented with left earache, skin eruptions over the left ear and side of the neck, inability to close the left eye, dribbling of saliva through the left side of the mouth, facial asymmetry with slurring ofspeech and hearing impairment (left ear) for two weeks. Four days later he also ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Neurological Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0022-510X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2019.10.902