Overview of therapeutic options for cystic echinococcosis;Attualità in tema di terapia dell'echinoccocosi cistica

Parassitologia

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 53-55

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; MEBENDAZOLE;

CHEMOTHERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EXCISION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER RESECTION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTICS; CATHETER ABLATION; DRAINAGE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MEBENDAZOLE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 4844230472     PISSN: 00482951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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