Schistosoma mansoni myelopathy: clinical and pathologic findings.
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.
Carod Artal
F J
FJ
Department of Neurology, Sarah Hospital, SMHS, quadra 501, conjunto A, CEP 70330-150, Brasília DF, Brazil. javier@bsb.sarah.br/FJCarod@aol.com
Vargas
A P
AP
Horan
T A
TA
Marinho
P B
PB
Coelho Costa
P H
PH
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008578:Meninges / Q000098:blood supply / Q000469:parasitology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010063:Ovum; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D011128:Polyradiculopathy / Q000209:etiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D012021:Reflex, Abnormal; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology