Toxocara canis myelitis involving the lumbosacral region: a case report

CONTEXT: Toxocara canis is a parasite known to cause visceral larva migrans. The infection rarely affects the central nervous system but there have been several reports of myelitis caused by visceral larva migrans due to Toxocara canis. In previous reported cases, the lesions were located in the tho...

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Published in:J Spinal Cord Med
Main Authors: Hiramatsu, Yu, Yoshimura, Michiyoshi, Saigo, Ryuji, Arata, Hitoshi, Okamoto, Yuji, Matsuura, Eiji, Maruyama, Haruhiko, Takashima, Hiroshi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Case Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5430482/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26832660
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10790268.2015.1114230
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