Schistosoma mansoni myelopathy -: Clinical and pathologic findings

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Artal, FJC
Vargas, AP
Horan, TA
Marinho, PB
Costa, PHC
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[1] Sarah Hosp, Dept Neurol, SMHS, BR-70330150 Brasilia, DF, Brazil
[2] Sarah Hosp, Dept Pathol, BR-70330150 Brasilia, DF, Brazil
[3] Sarah Hosp, Ctr SARAH Formacao & Pesquisa, BR-70330150 Brasilia, DF, Brazil
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10.1212/01.WNL.0000130190.67613.BE
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Thirteen patients with Schistosoma mansoni myelopathy are reported. Neurologic syndromes included acute areflexic flaccid paraplegia ( three), thoracic myelopathy with hyperreflexia and Babinski sign ( six), and a cauda equina syndrome ( four). Inflammatory granulomas and a schistosome worm in a leptomeningeal vein of the spinal cord were observed in the one patient coming to necropsy.
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