Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Hydatidosis Mimicking Thoracic Malignancy in a Paediatric South African Patient

In this case report, an illustrative case of pulmonary hydatidosis in a young South African girl is presented. The acute symptomatology, rapidly worsening clinical condition and the extremely atypical appearance of the hydatid cysts on imaging were initially misleading and raised suspicion for malig...

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Autores principales: De Wilde, Charlotte, du Plessis, Anne-Marie, Goussard, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386850
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1538
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spelling pubmed-62082882018-11-01 Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Hydatidosis Mimicking Thoracic Malignancy in a Paediatric South African Patient De Wilde, Charlotte du Plessis, Anne-Marie Goussard, Pierre J Belg Soc Radiol Case Report In this case report, an illustrative case of pulmonary hydatidosis in a young South African girl is presented. The acute symptomatology, rapidly worsening clinical condition and the extremely atypical appearance of the hydatid cysts on imaging were initially misleading and raised suspicion for malignant disease. Ubiquity Press 2018-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6208288/ /pubmed/30386850 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1538 Text en Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title_full Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Hydatidosis Mimicking Thoracic Malignancy in a Paediatric South African Patient
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title_short Unusual Presentation of Pulmonary Hydatidosis Mimicking Thoracic Malignancy in a Paediatric South African Patient
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