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Treatment by Means of Specific Internal Radiation

Gregorio Skromne-Kadlubik, MD; Cesar Celis, MD

Arch Neurol. 1981;38(5):288.

Abstract
• Five hundred patients with cysticercosis of the nervous system were evaluated by scanning that used anti-Cysticercus antibodies labeled with indium 113. The same antibodies, labeled with iodine 131, were used for radioimmunotreatment. Ninety-six percent of the patients had good or excellent results, whereas only 4% had poor results. None of the patients showed intolerance or radiotoxicity during three months of clinical and laboratory follow-up. The diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of cysticercosis of the nervous system are dramatically changing, due to the development of antiCysticercus antibodies labeled with radio-nuclides.

Author Affiliations
From the Radionucleidic Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 26, 1980.

Reprint requests to Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Radionucleidic Laboratory, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, AP Postal 70250, Mexico City, ZP 20 DF, Mexico (Dr Skromne-Kadlubik).