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Case Reports
. 2014 Apr;63(2):275-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.parint.2013.11.006. Epub 2013 Nov 22.

Unusual growth rate during cystic echinococcosis

Florent Valour  1 , Safia Khenifer  2 , Nellie Della-Schiava  3 , Eddy Cotte  4 , Benoit Guibert  3 , Martine Wallon  5 , Stéphane Durupt  2 , Isabelle Durieu  6
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Unusual growth rate during cystic echinococcosis

Florent Valour et al. Parasitol Int. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

Cystic echinococcosis is a world wild zoonosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus, leading to hepatic and lung cysts with a usually slight growth rate. We report the case of an 82year-old Algerian woman with hepatic and lung cystic echinococcosis with a 10-fold size increase in 6months.

Keywords: Cystic echinococcosis; Growth rate.

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