Abdominal hydatid disease: computed tomographic and ultrasound changes during albendazole therapy.
Eleven patients with abdominal hydatid disease were monitored by ultrasound and computed tomography during treatment with albendazole. As well as diminution in cyst size, some patients developed a transonic halo around their cysts and, in others, daughter cysts apparently disappeared.
D015766:Albendazole; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001562:Benzimidazoles / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
D000871:Anthelmintics; D001562:Benzimidazoles; D015766:Albendazole