Brain metastasis of alveolar echinococcosis in a hyperendemic focus of Echinococcus multilocularis infection.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
; 99(12): 937-41, 2005 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-16165174
ABSTRACT
An unusual female case, with alveolar echinococcosis (AE) disseminated from the primary hepatic lesion to the brain by metastasis formation, was retrospectively identified during a community survey in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, northwest China in 2003. Among possible metastases of hepatic AE, locations to the brain are rare and usually fatal; and they have especially been assigned to concomitant immune suppression. An enhancing role of pregnancy, which may be suspected in this case, the favourable outcome after surgery and chemotherapy, and also a mental disability in a child following long-term intrauterine exposure to mebendazole, make the report particularly unique.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Encefalopatias
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Infecções Protozoárias do Sistema Nervoso Central
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Equinococose
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Austrália