Heart echinococcus cyst as an incidental finding: early detection might be life-saving

We present a 46-year-old female smoker who was admitted to the emergency department of our hospital due to cough with blood-tinged sputum for the last four days before admission. Using echocardiography and Multi-Detector Computed Tomography (MDCT) heart Echinococcosis was diagnosed. Echinococcosis i...

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Autores principales: Tsigkas, Grigorios, Chouchoulis, Konstantinos, Apostolakis, Efstratios, Kalogeropoulou, Christina, Koutsogiannis, Nikolaos, Koumoundourou, Dimitra, Alexopoulos, Dimitrios
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-124

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-124

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