Schistosoma mansoni myelopathy: clinical and pathologic findings.
case_series · Level IV
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Schistosomiasis mansoni
- Spinal Cord Diseases