Alveolar Echinococcosis in Children
Joint Authors
Jonaitytė, Emilija
Judickas, Martynas
Tamulevičienė, Eglė
Šeškutė, Milda
Source
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-05-11
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is an infectious zoonotic disease that is caused by Echinococcus multilocularis.
The disease is generally identified accidentally because of the long asymptomatic period, has a malignant behaviour, and mainly occurs in the liver.
Usually it is diagnosed in adults and is very rare in pediatric patients.
We report two cases of AE and 1 differential case between AE and cystic echinococcosis (CE) in children: two of them had lesions in the liver and one had rare extrahepatic presentation of a cyst in the spleen.
All our patients received chemotherapy with albendazole because surgical treatment was not recommended.
The children were followed-up from 10 to 30 months and no significant improvement was seen.
In this report we discuss the difficulties we faced in the treatment and follow-up of these patients.
We also review the main clinical manifestations, general diagnostic methods, and treatment options of AE according to the current literature.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Jonaitytė, Emilija& Judickas, Martynas& Tamulevičienė, Eglė& Šeškutė, Milda. 2020. Alveolar Echinococcosis in Children. Case Reports in Pediatrics،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-7.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Jonaitytė, Emilija…[et al.]. Alveolar Echinococcosis in Children. Case Reports in Pediatrics No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-7.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Jonaitytė, Emilija& Judickas, Martynas& Tamulevičienė, Eglė& Šeškutė, Milda. Alveolar Echinococcosis in Children. Case Reports in Pediatrics. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1150642
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1150642