-
- V Agarwal, P Kumar, and R K Chadda.
- Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, PO Box 9520, Dilshad Garden, Delhi-110095, India.
- Indian J Pediatr. 2001 Nov 1; 68 (11): 1073-4.
AbstractNeurocysticercosis is a common neuroparasitosis. Presentation with psychiatric symptoms is uncommon in neurocysticercosis. The present paper describes a patient who presented with mutism, neglect of personal care and incontinence in a psychiatric setting and investigations revealed diagnosis of neurocysticercosis. The case report highlights the possible misdiagnoses of a case of neurocysticercosis as psychiatric illness and mutism as an uncommon presentation of neurocysticercosis.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..