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Immunodiagnosis of abdominal hydatid disease: Difficulties in the radiological and scintillographic localization of cysts
Author(s) -
Guarnera Eduardo A.,
VarelaDíaz Victor M.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb108173.x
Subject(s) - radiological weapon , medicine , hydatid cyst , radiology , echinococcosis , cyst , disease , surgery , pathology
A diagnosis of hydatid disease was established by the arc 5 double diffusion (DD5) test in two persons who had no symptoms, of whom one had had prior surgery for this parasitic infection. The location of some cysts which were removed surgically from these patients could not be determined in preoperative radiological and scintillographic studies. Postoperative serological monitoring by DD5 showed that one of these patients, though without symptoms, was harbouring an additional cyst. Abdominal x‐rays showed no abnormalities, a partially calcified 2.7 cm cyst was detected in the right lobe of the liver by computerized axial tomography.