title: [Polyradiculoneuritis and neurocysticercosis: report of a case].
abstract: Report of a patient with the hydrocephalic and meningoencephalitic form of neurocysticercosis who simultaneously developed polyradiculoneuropathy and intracranial hypertension syndrome during the first week of treatment with albendazole. Etiologic agents associated with polyradiculoneuropathy related in the literature are cited. Some comments about the possible physiopathogeny of this entity in the presence of cysticercosis are also done. It is mentioned another case who presented polyradiculoneuropathy as the only manifestation of a probable cysticercosis of the nervous system. In this presented case, including the neurocysticercosis and even a mere coincidence of facts, some factors can have a relationship with the appearance of polyradiculoneuropathy as the surgical stress, the stress due to the severity of the clinical picture and the possible side effect of albendazole.
authors: Departamento de Neurologia e Psiquiatria da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, UNESP, Brasil.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Agapejev
authors: M D
authors: MD
authors: Da Silva
authors: L A
authors: LA
authors: De Lima Resende
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015766:Albendazole / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000469:parasitology*; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011129:Polyradiculoneuropathy / Q000139:chemically induced*
chemical_list: D000871:Anthelmintics; D015766:Albendazole
vernacular_title: Polirradiculoneurite e neurocisticercose: relato de caso.