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Unique MRI findings for differentiation of an early stage of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis.
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- Stage-Oriented CT Classification and Intermodal Evolution Model in Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis.RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin · 2022Article
- Analysis of Ultrasonographic Characteristics of Early Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- A Case of Human Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis Accompanied by Lung and Brain Metastases.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2021Article
- Progress on the national echinococcosis control programme in China: analysis of humans and dogs population intervention during 2004-2014.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2020Article
- Evaluation of intrahepatic manifestation and distant extrahepatic disease in alveolar echinococcosis.World journal of gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Portal hypertension as a result of the incomplete surgically treated advanced alveolar echinococcosis: a case description.BMC gastroenterology · 2020Article
- The role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the diagnosis of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis.Medicine · 2019Article
- Simple liver cysts and cystoid lesions in hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: a retrospective cohort study with Hounsfield analysis.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2019Article
- Serological validation of an alveolar echinococcosis rat model with a single hepatic lesion.The Journal of veterinary medical science · 2017Article
- Fatal Liver and Lung Alveolar Echinococcosis with Newly Developed Neurologic Symptoms due to the Brain Involvement.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2016Article
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Abstract
CT scan and ultrasonography images revealed two small uniformly low-density and hypoechoic lesions in the liver, respectively, 7 years after curative resection of rectal cancer, in a 74-year-old man. The area of the liver including the two lesions was segmentally resected. Two lesions were histopathologically confirmed as early but active stage alveolar echinococcosis (AE) caused by accidental ingestion of eggs of the fox tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis. This case is very unique and rare, since early stage hepatic AE cases have only accidentally been confirmed from cases in which malignant hepatic tumours were suspected, and because two independent AE lesions were detected. Abdominal MRI showed two isointense tumour lesions with small areas of high-signal intensity in their centres on T2-weighted images. MRI findings appear to reflect the macroscopic view and microscopic findings of early stage AE with active cyst in the centre of each hepatic lesion well.
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