Hepatic involvement of visceral larva migrans due to Toxocara canis: A case report - CT and MR findings

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 89-92

  Azuma, Koichiro ^a   Yashiro, Naobumi ^a   Kinoshita, Takahiro ^a   Yoshigi, Jun ^a   Ihara, Nobumaro ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT (computed tomography); MRI (magnetic resonance imaging); Multiple liver nodules; Toxocara canis; Visceral larva migrans

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NODULE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RASH; SEROLOGY; TOXOCARA CANIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME; ANIMAL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; HUMAN; LARVA MIGRANS, VISCERAL; LIVER DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOCARA CANIS; ANIMALS; HUMANS;

EID: 0036096155     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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