An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female

Hydatidosis of the spleen is a rare zoonotic clinical entity. The occurrence of isolated splenic hydatid cysts in the absence of these cysts in any other portion of the body is referred to as primary splenic hydatidosis. It is a rare disorder that accounts for only 2% of the burden of hydatid diseas...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Aditya, Yadav, Ganesh Chandra, Yadav, Amit Kumar, Meena, Ram Niwas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10618711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37920613
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46346
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author Sharma, Aditya
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description Hydatidosis of the spleen is a rare zoonotic clinical entity. The occurrence of isolated splenic hydatid cysts in the absence of these cysts in any other portion of the body is referred to as primary splenic hydatidosis. It is a rare disorder that accounts for only 2% of the burden of hydatid disease worldwide. After the liver and the lungs, the spleen is the organ that is most frequently affected by this condition.
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spelling pubmed-106187112023-11-02 An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female Sharma, Aditya Yadav, Ganesh Chandra Yadav, Amit Kumar Meena, Ram Niwas Cureus Public Health Hydatidosis of the spleen is a rare zoonotic clinical entity. The occurrence of isolated splenic hydatid cysts in the absence of these cysts in any other portion of the body is referred to as primary splenic hydatidosis. It is a rare disorder that accounts for only 2% of the burden of hydatid disease worldwide. After the liver and the lungs, the spleen is the organ that is most frequently affected by this condition. Cureus 2023-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10618711/ /pubmed/37920613 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46346 Text en Copyright © 2023, Sharma et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Sharma, Aditya
Yadav, Ganesh Chandra
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An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female
title An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female
title_full An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female
title_fullStr An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female
title_full_unstemmed An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female
title_short An Unexpected Finding of Isolated Hydatidosis of the Spleen With Concomitant Visceromegaly in an Elderly Female
title_sort unexpected finding of isolated hydatidosis of the spleen with concomitant visceromegaly in an elderly female
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10618711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37920613
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46346
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