Toxocariasis masquerading as liver and lung metastatic nodules in patents with gastrointestinal cancer: Clinicopathologic study of five cases

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-160

  Park, Sanghui ^a   Kim, Yun Soo ^a   Kim, Yu Jin ^a   Kyung, Sun Young ^a   Park, Jeong Woong ^a   Jeong, Sung Hwan ^a   Lee, Sang Pyo ^a  

^a Gachon University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal cancer; Metastasis; Toxocariasis; Visceral larva migrans

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARASITE ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CATTLE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PLASMA CELL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAW FOOD; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROLOGY; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TOXOCARIASIS; TREATMENT DURATION; VISCERAL LARVA MIGRANS SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BIOPSY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LARVA MIGRANS, VISCERAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOXOCARA CANIS;

EID: 84856712271     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-011-1833-5     Document Type: Article

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