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Neurological complications are rare in trichinosis. We report a case with marked hypereosinophilia in which MRI showed multiple small subacute cortical infarcts with Gd-DTPA enhancement.
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Feydy, A., Touze, E., Miaux, Y. et al. MRI in a case of neurotrichinosis. Neuroradiology 38 (Suppl 1), S80–S82 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02278127
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