The types and timing of the degenerative changes seen in the cysts during and after benzimidazole treatment of cystic echinococcosis

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 649-659

  Todorov, T ^a   Vutova, K ^a   Donev, S ^a   Ivanov, A ^b   Katzarov, K ^b   Takov, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

^b MILITARY MEDICAL ACADEMY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; BENZIMIDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST RUPTURE; DRUG FEVER; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYDATID CYST; LUNG HYDATID CYST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TISSUE DEGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTICESTODAL AGENTS; BENZIMIDAZOLES; CHILD; CYSTS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEBENDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27144532102     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485905X65125     Document Type: Article

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