Comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of alveolar echinococcosis: A single-center, long-term observational study of 312 patients in Germany

Comprehensive diagnosis and treatment of alveolar echinococcosis: A single-center, long-term observational study of 312 patients in Germany

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is the most Iethal human helminthic infection. The malignancy-like disease is rare, but morbidity and treatment costs are high. Objective of the study was to identify factors at baseline and during specific AE therapy influencing the long-term outcome of the disease.All...

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Main Authors: Grüner, Beate, Kern, Petra, Mayer, Benjamin, Gräter, Tilmann, Hillenbrand, Andreas, Barth, Thomas E. F., Muche, Rainer, Henne-Bruns, Doris, Kratzer, Wolfgang, Kern, Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2017-01-01
Series:GMS Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
alveolar echinococcosis
Echinococcus multilocularis
antiparasitic treatment
surgery
classification
risk factors
Online Access:http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/id/2017-5/id000027.shtml

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