Review of surgical management of cystic hydatid disease in a resource limited setting: Turkana, Kenya

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1233-1236

  Cooney, Rachel M ^a,b   Flanagan, Kevin P ^a,b   Zehyle, Ebehard ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b Kakuma Mission Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cystic echinococcosis; Hydatid; Hydatid cyst; Hydatidosis; Turkana

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CYST; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARM; ASPIRATION; AWARENESS; CHILD; CYST; CYST FLUID; CYSTECTOMY; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FEMALE; FOOT; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; INJECTION; KENYA; LARVA; LIVER CYST; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MESENTERY CYST; MIGRATION; ORBIT CYST; PAROTID GLAND; PHYSICIAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL CYST; REVIEW; SPLEEN CYST; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TIBIA; TRAVEL; UTERUS; ZOONOSIS; ZYGOMA;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTICESTODAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8444228920     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200411000-00024     Document Type: Review

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