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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2024

Two Cases of Disseminated Alveolar Echinococcosis: The Diagnosis, Management, and Differential Considerations for Liver Lesions.

Kazuki Hirano, Yuta Maruki, Daiki Yamashige, Osamu Kobayashi, Mika Shiotsuka, Chigusa Morizane, Tsunao Imamura, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Takuji Okusaka

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kazuki HiranoDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Yuta MarukiDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Daiki YamashigeDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Osamu KobayashiDepartment of Infection, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Mika ShiotsukaDepartment of Infection, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Chigusa MorizaneDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Tsunao ImamuraDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Nobuyoshi HiraokaDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Takuji OkusakaDepartment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Oncology, National Cancer Center Japan, Japan.
Toranomon Hospital · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by Echinococcus multilocularis, is an aggressive and potentially critical infestation that primarily affects the liver and can metastasize to any part of the body. We herein report two cases of echinococcosis, which could be differentiated from malignancy on imaging studies, with infections of the liver and mediastinal lymph nodes, and also associated with systemic disseminated lesions. AE is a very invasive infectious disease, and in order to detect such lesions at an early stage when they are still resectable, it is necessary to understand the characteristic imaging findings and determine the patient's current medical history.

Indexed as

EchinococcosisEchinococcosis, HepaticEchinococcus multilocularisAdultAnimalsDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleHumansLiverMaleMiddle AgedTomography, X-Ray Computedalveolar echinococcosisEchinococcus multilocularisliver tumorsmalignancy

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PMID37779063
PMCPMC11116014
OpenAlexW4387123334

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