Treatment of complicated pulmonary echinococcosis with albendazole in childhood

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 638-640

  Galanakis, Emmanouil ^a   Besis, Sotirios ^a   Pappa, Christiana ^a   Nicolopoulos, Panayiotis ^a   Lapatsanis, Petros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SUPERINFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CYST RUPTURE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; LUNG HYDATID CYST; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0031432516     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365549709035913     Document Type: Article

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