ArticleParasite (Paris, France)2019
Simple liver cysts and cystoid lesions in hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: a retrospective cohort study with Hounsfield analysis.
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- Circulating free DNA as a diagnostic marker for echinococcosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Pooled it
- Advances in single-cell transcriptomic sequencing in hepatic echinococcosis.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- The initial stage of alveolar echinococcosis is a diagnostic challenge: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025Article
- Hepatic cystic echinococcosis (type II): A case report.The Journal of international medical research · 2025Article
- Advances in Novel Diagnostic Techniques for Alveolar Echinococcosis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Sensitive detection of specific cell-free DNA in serum samples from sheep with cystic echinococcosis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- LncRNA Regulation Mechanism in Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis with Nanosecond Pulse.Acta parasitologica · 2023Article
- Stage-Oriented CT Classification and Intermodal Evolution Model in Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis.RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin · 2022Article
- Extrahepatic alveolar echinococcus on multi-slice computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.Scientific reports · 2021Observational
- Evaluation of intrahepatic manifestation and distant extrahepatic disease in alveolar echinococcosis.World journal of gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Combining Computed Tomography and Histology Leads to an Evolutionary Concept of Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Portal hypertension as a result of the incomplete surgically treated advanced alveolar echinococcosis: a case description.BMC gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Comprehensive characterization of plasma cell-free Echinococcus spp. DNA in echinococcosis patients using ultra-high-throughput sequencing.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare zoonosis caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. AE lesions affect the liver in more than 98% of cases. AE lesions have various morphological characteristics that are described in the Echinococcus multilocularis Ulm classification for computed tomography (EMUC-CT). One of these characteristics is a cystoid portion. The aim of the study was to compare the density of simple hepatic cysts with cystoid portions of AE lesions classified on the basis of the EMUC-CT.
resultsHounsfield Unit (HU) measurements of the cystoid portions of all EMUC-CT type I-IV AE lesions (n = 155) gave a mean of 21.8 ± 17.6, which was significantly different from that of 2.9 ± 4.5 for the simple hepatic cysts (p < 0.0001). The difference between each of the individual AE types and simple hepatic cysts was also significant. In addition, the HU values of the cystoid portions in types I, II and IIIa/b and simple cysts were each significantly different from type IV (p < 0.0001). The HU measurements in type IV presented by far the highest mean.
conclusionsThe significantly higher density measured in the cystoid portions of hepatic AE lesions offers a good means of differentiation from simple hepatic cysts.
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