Visceral larval migrans masquerading as metastatic disease in a toddler with Wilms tumor

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-267

  Anderson, Andrew ^a   Fordham, Lynn Ansley ^a   Bula, Melania L ^a   Blatt, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Toxocara canis; Visceral larval migrans; Wilms

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MEBENDAZOLE; PARASITE ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER INJURY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG NODULE; METASTASIS; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARIASIS; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LARVA MIGRANS, VISCERAL; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TOXOCARA CANIS; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 33645733603     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-005-0061-6     Document Type: Article

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