Twenty years of percutaneous treatments for cystic echinococcosis: A preliminary assessment of their use and safety

Parassitologia

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 367-370

  Brunetti, E ^a   Troia G ^a   Garlaschelli, A L ^a   Gulizia, R ^a   Filice, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cystic echinococcosis; Hydatidosis; PAIR; Percutaneous treatments

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMAL; BILE DUCT FISTULA; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG EFFECT; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LARVA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUCTION;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BILIARY FISTULA; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; LARVA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SUCTION;

ECHINOCOCCUS;

EID: 23644441932     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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