Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: a diagnostic challenge

Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis.

 Alveolar hydatid disease is a highly malignant form of echinococcosis caused by the larvae of the cestode echinococcus multilocularis. Alveolar hydatid disease always affects the liver and can metastasise to the lung and brain. Early diagnosis and precise evaluation of the localization as well as the extent of lesions are essential for treatment. In this report, we present ultrasound and compu...

Pseudoachalasia: a diagnostic challenge

Here, we present a case of a 78-year-old man that underwent gastrointestinal endoscopy because of one- monthhistory of dysphagia to liquids and solid foods with accompanying weight loss. On endoscopy, there was distalesophageal stenosis. Multiple biopsies were obtained. Histologic examination of the samples revealed normaltissue. The stenosis was treated by dilatation and abdomino pelvic comput...

Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: clinical report from an endemic region.

OBJECTIVE To review the clinical management of alveolar echinococcosis. DESIGN A retrospective analysis. SETTING A university-affiliated hospital in Turkey. PATIENTS Forty patients treated for alveolar echinococcosis between 1987 and 2000. INTERVENTIONS Curative resection followed by chemotherapy, or medical palliation with chemotherapy only. Palliative procedures such as bilioenteric o...

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The choose of different surgical therapies of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis

The aim of this study was to evaluate different surgical therapies for hepatic alveolar echinococcosis in different clinical stages.We analyze the clinical data of 115 patients who received surgical treatment in West China Hospital from January 2004 to June 2016. Among these patients, 77 cases underwent radical hepatic resection (group A, n = 77); 17 cases underwent palliative resection (group ...