title: Abdominal hydatid disease: computed tomographic and ultrasound changes during albendazole therapy.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000871:Anthelmintics; D001562:Benzimidazoles; D015766:Albendazole