A case of alveolar echinococcosis in the liver that ruptured into the pericardium treated by a combination of hepatectomy and albendazole

BACKGROUND: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare parasitic disease caused by the larva of Echinococcus multilocularis. It nearly always occurs in the liver, and cardiac involvement is extremely rare. Liver resection is the most effective intervention for AE because the only potentially curative tr...

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Autores principales: Yamamoto, Yoichi, Sakamoto, Yuzuru, Kamiyama, Toshiya, Nagatsu, Akihisa, Asahi, Yoh, Orimo, Tatsuya, Kakisaka, Tatsuhiko, Kamachi, Hirofumi, Otsuka, Takuya, Mitsuhashi, Tomoko, Taketomi, Akinobu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8993950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35394220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-022-01417-6

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