an incidental diagnosis of neurocysticercosis in a dental patient.

An Incidental Diagnosis of Neurocysticercosis in a Dental Patient

Tenia solium, a parasite causes cysticercous cellulose when affecting the central nervous system, the manifestation is called neurocysticercosis. The most common symptom in neurocysticercosis is seizure. Generally, oral diagnosticians come across cases of oral cysticercosis and it is rare to find a case of neurocysticercosis in the dental office, as it goes undetected. Sometimes, when patients ...

Pyle's disease: an incidental finding in a routine dental patient.

Pyle's disease (PD) or metaphyseal dysplasia is an extremely rare genetic disorder, transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait. The peculiarity of the disease is that the striking radiographic manifestations contrast with the relatively normal clinical features. The oral findings and radiographic features of the disease are not well documented. The present paper describes the radiographic feat...

review of radiographic methods in dental implantology

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Neurocysticercosis in a patient in Canada.

The diagnosis of neurocysticercosis: a closed question?

In this issue, Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria publishes three articles about the diagnostic aspects of neurocysticerco-sis (NC). I think it is very important to discuss some aspects of this disease. WHO considers that NC is the main disease of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by parasites 1. NC may be the consequence of two distinct morphological forms of the larval form of Taenia soli-um...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurocysticercosis

Neurocysticercosis, the infection caused by the larval form of the tapeworm Taenia solium, is the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system and the most common cause of acquired epilepsy worldwide. This has primarily been a disease that remains endemic in low-socioeconomic countries, but because of increased migration neurocysticercosis is being diagnosed more frequently in hi...