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Multisystem involvement of alveolar echinococcosis in a child

Author(s) -

Mecit Kantarcı,

Ümmügülsüm Bayraktutan,

Berhan Pirimoğlu,

Hayri Oğul,

Akgün Oral,

Suat Eren,

Betül Gündoğdu

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.4214

Subject(s) - alveolar echinococcosis , medicine , echinococcosis , pathology , lung , lymphatic system , metastasis , cancer

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic progressive infestation inducing a slowly progressing, life-threatening tumor-like growth in the liver. It may spread to other organs by regional extension or hematogenous or lymphatic metastasis. Herein, we report a fifteen-year-old patient diagnosed with AE of the liver and simultaneous lung and brain metastasis with a literature review.

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