Disseminated alveolar echinococcosis resembling metastatic malignancy: a case report

Article Article scientifique Article Disseminated alveolar echinococcosis resembling metastatic malignancy: a case report eng 2017 author Caire Nail l author Rodriguez Reimundes Ezequiel 801299 author Weibel Galluzzo Christelle 822320 author Lebowitz Dan 558143 author Ibrahim Yasmine Lucile 507821 author Lobrinus Johannes Alexander 647649 author Chappuis François 34709 113 10.1186/s13256-017-1279-2 28416007 1752-1947 Alveolar echinococcosis is a potentially lethal zoonosis caused by larval forms of the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. Humans are aberrant intermediate hosts who become infected by ingestion of egg-contaminated food or water or via physical contact with domestic or wild animals that carry the parasite in their small intestine. In humans, the disease usually affects the liver and can spread to other organs causing metastatic infiltration. In this report, we describe an advanced presentation of human alveolar echinococcosis mimicking metastatic malignancy. Dewey 613 Dewey 616.07 137 Département de pathologie et immunologie 21F 64 Département de santé et médecine communautaires 22A false Journal of medical case reports 11 1 9a0363d0-ddbb-48f5-a0c7-34bdbba2d177 Article (Published version) Public Disseminated alveolar ..... a case report.pdf 2540733 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine fondamentale / Département de pathologie et immunologie Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de santé et médecine communautaires

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