Pediatric alveolar echinococcosis invading the diaphragm and spreading to the chest and abdominal wall.
Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is an endemic disease in certain parts of the world and relatively rare in children. This report describes a 9-year-old girl with hepatic AE invading the diaphragm and directly spreading to the chest and abdominal wall. She was treated by surgical extirpation and albendazole therapy. In advanced hepatic AE, combined therapy of surgical and medical intervention is thought to improve the prognosis.
Honda
Shohei
S
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan. shohei@sam.hi-ho.ne.jp
Okada
Tadao
T
Sasaki
Fumiaki
F
Naito
Satsuki
S
Sato
Naoki
N
Kamiyama
Toshiya
T
Itoh
Tomoo
T
Kubota
Kanako Chikae
KC
Todo
Satoru
S
D015766:Albendazole / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D015766:Albendazole