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Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: a diagnostic challenge [PDF]
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2011 We report a case of alveolar echinococcosis involving the liver in a 61-year-old male. Alveolar echinococcosis is a rare chronic and progressive disease, which can involve mostly liver and in rare cases lung and brain.
O Yapici +6 more
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Human Alveolar Echinococcosis, Croatia [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 Alveolar echinococcosis is a parasitic disease caused by the tapeworm larval stage of Echinococcus multilocularis. This zoonotic disease has not been known to occur in Croatia.
Davorka Dušek +6 more
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The initial stage of alveolar echinococcosis is a diagnostic challenge: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground Alveolar echinococcosis is a rare, potentially fatal parasitosis with the main manifestation site in the liver. Diagnosis already in the initial stage of the disease is important to prevent further exacerbation and possible secondary ...
Tilmann Graeter +4 more
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Alveolar Echinococcosis in Children [PDF]
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2020 Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is an infectious zoonotic disease that is caused by Echinococcus multilocularis. The disease is generally identified accidentally because of the long asymptomatic period, has a malignant behaviour, and mainly occurs in the liver. Usually it is diagnosed in adults and is very rare in pediatric patients.
Emilija Jonaitytė +3 more
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Alveolar Echinococcosis, Lithuania [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 Alveolar Echniococcosis ...
Rasa Bružinskaitė +7 more
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Alveolar and neotropical echinococcosis
Детские инфекции (Москва), 2022 The urgency of the problem of human alveolar and neotropic echinococcosis is due to polymorphism and the severity of clinical manifestations. The purpose and result of the work is to summarize the data available in the literature on the etiology ...
S. B. Chuelov, A. L. Rossina
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Multimodal imaging for the diagnosis of cardiac alveolar echinococcosis: a case report [PDF]
BMC Cardiovascular DisordersBackground Primary cardiac echinococcosis is rare, and cardiac alveolar echinococcosis is even rarer and more unusual. Reported cases of this disease are extremely limited, and multimodal imaging provides an important guide to treatment and decision ...
Mengdie Zhu +3 more
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Disseminated Alveolar Echinococcosis.
Albanian Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, 2021 Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is caused by the larval form of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. In humans, E. alveolaris metacestode cells proliferate in the liver inducing a hepatic disorder that mimics liver cancer and can spread to other organs.
Liri Çuko +8 more
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The Global Burden of Alveolar Echinococcosis
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is known to be common in certain rural communities in China whilst it is generally rare and sporadic elsewhere. The objective of this study was to provide a first estimate of the global incidence of this disease by country.
Paul R Torgerson
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Global Distribution of Alveolar and Cystic Echinococcosis [PDF]
Advances in Parasitology, 2017 Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE) are severe helminthic zoonoses. Echinococcus multilocularis (causative agent of AE) is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere where it is typically maintained in a wild animal cycle including canids as definitive hosts and rodents as intermediate hosts.
Majid Fasihi Harandi
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