Toxoplasmic myelitis mimicking intramedullary spinal cord tumor
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 38 (10) , 1648
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.38.10.1648
Abstract
Toxoplasma gondii causes cerebrl infection in individuals with impaired immunologic defense mechanisms. We report a case of toxoplasmic myelitis. Spinal cord toxoplasmosis has not been previously documented except in congenital infection.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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