Advances in Liver Echinococcosis: Diagnosis and Treatment

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 152-159

  Filippou, Dimitrios ^a,b   Tselepis, Dimitrios ^b   Filippou, Georgios ^a   Papadopoulos, Vassilios ^c  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^c Xanthi General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; FLUBENDAZOLE; MEBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ALOPECIA; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMAN; HYDATID CYST; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MONOTHERAPY; PANCYTOPENIA; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMANS;

EID: 33846798128     PISSN: 15423565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2006.08.017     Document Type: Review

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