Multisystem involvement of alveolar echinococcosis in a child.
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic progressive infestation inducing a slowly progressing, life-threatening tumor-like growth in the liver. It may spread to other organs by regional extension or hematogenous or lymphatic metastasis. Herein, we report a fifteen-year-old patient diagnosed with AE of the liver and simultaneous lung and brain metastasis with a literature review.
School of Medicine Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey. akkanrad@hotmail.com.
Mecit
M
Kantarci
Ummugulsum
U
Bayraktutan
Berhan
B
Pirimoglu
Hayri
H
Ogul
Akgun
A
Oral
Suat
S
Eren
Betul
B
Gundogdu
D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D004443:Echinococcosis; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed