Subject(s)
Bone Diseases, Infectious/parasitology , Echinococcosis/complications , Fractures, Closed/etiology , Fractures, Spontaneous/etiology , Humeral Fractures/etiology , Adolescent , Albendazole/therapeutic use , Anthelmintics/therapeutic use , Bone Diseases, Infectious/diagnosis , Bone Diseases, Infectious/diagnostic imaging , Bone Diseases, Infectious/drug therapy , Bone Diseases, Infectious/pathology , Bone Diseases, Infectious/surgery , Combined Modality Therapy , Curettage , Echinococcosis/diagnosis , Echinococcosis/diagnostic imaging , Echinococcosis/drug therapy , Echinococcosis/pathology , Echinococcosis/surgery , Echinococcosis, Hepatic/complications , Echinococcosis, Hepatic/drug therapy , Female , Fractures, Closed/diagnostic imaging , Fractures, Closed/drug therapy , Fractures, Closed/parasitology , Fractures, Closed/pathology , Fractures, Closed/surgery , Fractures, Spontaneous/diagnostic imaging , Fractures, Spontaneous/drug therapy , Fractures, Spontaneous/parasitology , Fractures, Spontaneous/pathology , Fractures, Spontaneous/surgery , Humans , Humeral Fractures/diagnostic imaging , Humeral Fractures/drug therapy , Humeral Fractures/parasitology , Humeral Fractures/pathology , Humeral Fractures/surgery , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Radiography , Saline Solution, Hypertonic/administration & dosage , Therapeutic IrrigationABSTRACT
The clinical case of an apparently healthy 63-year-old man from a rural area, with previous contact with dogs, who had a pathological fracture of the right humerus in presented. Initially he presented slight local pain, and functional discapacity. Eigh months later, after a radiological study and surgery (curettage), diagnosis of hydatid disease was made. Later on, after receiving two courses with albendazole, the parient continued in similar conditions for seven years, when his situation became complicated with bacterial, fistula and extraoseous hydatidosis. The humeral was resected and a segmentary prothesis was successfully set
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Bacterial Infections/etiology , Echinococcosis/complications , Fistula/etiology , Humeral Fractures/etiology , Albendazole/therapeutic use , Amputation, Surgical , Arm Injuries/etiology , Axilla/injuries , Clinical Evolution , Clinical Laboratory Techniques , Echinococcus/growth & development , Echinococcus/pathogenicity , Humeral Fractures/diagnosis , Humeral Fractures/parasitology , Humeral Fractures/drug therapy , Humerus/parasitology , RadiographyABSTRACT
The clinical case of an apparently healthy 63-year-old man from a rural area, with previous contact with dogs, who had a pathological fracture of the right humerus is presented. Initially he presented slight local pain, and functional discapacity. Eight months later, after a radiological study and surgery (curettage), diagnosis of hydatid disease was made. Later on, after receiving two courses with albendazole, the parent continued in similar conditions for seven years, when his situation became complicated with bacterial, fistula and extraoseous hydatidosis. The humerus was resected and a segmentary prothesis was successfully set.