title: Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis: a diagnostic challenge.
abstract: We report a case of alveolar echinococcosis involving the liver in a 61-year-old male. Alveolar echinococcosis is a rare chronic and progressive disease, which can involve mostly liver and in rare cases lung and brain. It is caused by Echinococcus multilocularis. In this report we describe the imaging findings of hepatic involvement of alveolar echinococcosis by ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Sisli Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. ozgevapici@hotmail.com
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Yapici
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Erturk
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ulusay
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ozel
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Halefoglu
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Karpat
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Basak
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged