Multiple Hypodense Liver Tumors: Unusual Case of a Spontaneously Healed Echinococcosis
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Case Reports - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
A 62 year old woman suffered from unspecific upper abdominal pain. Abdominal imaging showed multiple liver tumors highly suspicious for malignancy. Although a first needle biopsy was suggestive for an echinoccocus cyst, repeated serologic testing for echinococcosis was negative. Only after surgical resection of one tumor nodule, a spontaneously healed Echinococcus multilocularis could be diagnosed. Therefore echinococcosis should always be considered as a possible differential diagnosis of liver tumors in Central Europe. Spontaneous death of Echinococcus multilocularis hydatids as described in this case is rare, but might be underreported in the literature.
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Tobias Friedrich, Natalie Woehrle, Diana Karimi, Christian Rust
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- EP ID EP343720
- DOI 10.9734/IJMPCR/2015/15136
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