Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic and serious, even lethal, parasitic infection caused by the helminth Echinococcus multilocularis (EM). AE is an endemic disease in Turkey and it is particularly common in people living in the eastern Anatolia Region. In addition to various clinical presentations, symptoms which lead to diagnosis, however, are usually associated with the metastatic lesio...

Common Name: Dog Tapeworm. Echinococcus granulosus is most prevalent and causes cystic hydatid disease. multilocularis uncommon responsible for alveolar Hydatid disease a significant health problem worldwide. It zoonosis. Adult worm lives in the small intestine of dog rarely wolf fox. optimal definitive host. The larval stage (hydatid cyst) found herbivorous animal like sheep, goat, cattle. Man...

There are four forms of hydatid disease. Echinococcus granulosus (EG) is the most common and gives rise to cystic hydatid disease (CHD), which is the focus of this review. Echinococcus multilocularis is uncommon and causes alveolar hydatid disease (AHD), which is far more aggressive and frequently mimics malignancy. The rarest clinical form is Echinococcus vogeli or polycystic hydatid disease (...

Introduction: Alveolar hydatid disease is a lethal parasitic disease of human caused by the larval stage of echinococcosis multilocularis. Human beings are accidental intermediate hosts. Brain involvement is rare. The clinical, radiological and pathological findings in a case of multi-located alveolar hydatid disease are presented and the literature reviewed. Case presentation: The patient pres...

Alveolar echinococcosis is a chronic and serious, even lethal, parasitic infection caused by the helminth Echinococcus multilocularis. The involvement of Central Nervous System is reported to be 1-3% in literature. Brain involvement is considered a sign of the terminal phase of alveolar echinococcosis. We here in reported a 67-year-old female who had liver alveolar hydatid disease with brain an...

purpose: to present two patients with hydatid and alveolar cysts of the orbit and to present their clinical, imaging, pathologic and therapeutic features. case report: two young children from rural areas were referred for progressive proptosis. imaging showed intraorbital cysts. they were operated on with a clinical suspicion of hydatid and alveolar cysts. pathologic evaluation confirmed the di...

Alvelolar hydatid disease is caused by E. multilocularis. Human infection occurs at the larval stage of this small tape worm (1.2 to 4.5 mm). In this article we studied alveolar hydatid disease in a 50 year old woman who presented with a hepatic mass. Liver biopsy and histopathologic evaluation showed alvelolar hydatidosis of the liver. Then resection of the left lobe of liver was done, with me...

Background: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic, rare and sometimes lethal parasitic infection in humans, caused by the larval stage of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. This study aimed to investigate the clinical aspects and treatment outcomes of patients with alveolar hydatid disease. Methods: The medical records of patients with alveolar echinococcosis admitted between ...

Echinococcosis is an infectious disease of humans caused by the larval (metacestode) stage of the cestode species Echinococcus granulosus (cystic echinococcosis or hydatid disease) or Echinococcus multilocularis (alveolar echinococcosis or alveolar hydatid disease). Clinical manifestations depend primarily on localization and size of hepatic lesions and may include hepatomegaly, obstructive jau...