[Peritoneal echinococcosis. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems. Apropos of 34 cases].
By the light of retrospective study of a series of 34 cases of peritoneal echinococcosis the authors are reminding epidemiological, etiopathologenical, diagnostic difficulties and treatment of this endemic affection in their country. In their study they noted a frequency of 4.5%. With a female predominance (73.5%), the main age was 47 years 80% of the patients were noted to have a rural origin. The treatment was conservative for the primitive kyste as for the peritoneal locations. The post operative course was uneventful in 76% of cases and complicated in 24% (subphrenic abscess in 5 cases and cholerragy in 2 cases). They deplored 3 deaths the follow up was assured clinically; echographically and biologically; they have reoperated 9 relapses.
Moumen
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Service de Chirurgie viscérale, C.H.U. Ibonou Rochd, Casablanca, Maroc.
el Alaoui
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el Mansouri
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Mokhtari
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el Fares
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010532:Peritoneal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D012189:Retrospective Studies
L'échinococcose péritonéale. Problèmes diagnostiques. et thérapeutiques. A propos de 34 cas.