Successful outcome of hepatic polycystic echinococcosis managed with surgery and chemotherapy

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 624-626

  Siqueira, Nilton Ghiotti ^a   de Almeida, Fernanda Barbosa ^b   Chalub, Sidney Raimundo Silva ^c   Machado Silva, José Roberto ^d   Rodrigues Silva, Rosângela ^b  

^a Fund Hospital Do Acre   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c Setor de Odontologia   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Albendazole; Brazil; Drug therapy; Echinococcus vogeli; Hepatic echinococcosis; Immunoblotting; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS VOGELI; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER SURGERY; OMENTUM; PERITONEUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTICESTODAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; OMENTUM; PERITONEUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ECHINOCOCCUS VOGELI;

EID: 34247152459     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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