Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: Clinical and radiologic features and endoscopic management

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 160-167

  Sezgin, Orhan ^a   Altintaş, Engin ^a   Saritaş, Ülkü ^b   Şahin, Burhan ^c  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Echinococcus multilocularis; Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBENDAZOLE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MEBENDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ASTHENIA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHILL; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12344287395     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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