Nonsurgical therapy for pulmonary hydatid cyst disease.
Therapeutic and diagnostic aspiration of Echinococcus granulosus liver cysts, but not pulmonary cysts, are increasingly being performed. Documented herein is the utility of percutaneous drainage and of albendazole treatment in a patient with a large recurrent, isolated, pulmonary echinococcal cyst for whom traditional therapy would have resulted in severe morbidity. Therapeutic options and possible complications are discussed.
Mawhorter
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Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., USA.
Temeck
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B
Chang
R
R
Pass
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H
Nash
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T
D000328:Adult; D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000818:Animals; D000871:Anthelmintics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D004322:Drainage / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D004445:Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000628:therapy*; D004446:Echinococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000871:Anthelmintics; D015766:Albendazole