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Clinical characterization of unusual cystic echinococcosis in southern part of Turkey

2014; King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre; Volume: 34; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5144/0256-4947.2014.508

0975-4466

Atılgan Tolga Akçam, Abdullah Ülkü, İsmail Soner Koltaş, Volkan İzol, Ömer Sunkar Biçer, Emine Kiliçbagir, Gürhan Sakman, Hakan Poyrazoğlu, Tahsin Erman, İbrahim Atilla Arıdoğan, Cem Kaan Parsak, Mehmet İnal, Serdar İskit,

Amoebic Infections and Treatments

The incidence of primary extrahepatic cystic echinococcosis (CE) is rare. Generally, radiological and serological findings can help establish the diagnosis of hepatic and pulmonary CE, but a CE in an unusual location with atypical radiological findings may complicate the differential diagnosis. The objective of this study is to present the characteristics of cases with extrahepatic CE in respect of sites of involvement, clinical presentations, radiological findings, serological diagnostic evaluations, and outcomes of infected patients.