Eosinophilic meningitis: cause of a chronic pain syndrome.
Open Access
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 53 (9) , 778-781
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.53.9.778
Abstract
Three tourists developed eosinophilic meningitis after visiting the Fijian Islands. Two had a severe and long lasting illness with chronic intractable pain. In one patient electrophysiological studies and MRI scan of the brain were abnormal and provided evidence of both radicular and cerebral parenchymal involvement by the most likely causative agent, Angiostrongylus cantonensis.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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