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...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.展开更多
文摘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.