Pediatric alveolar echinococcosis invading the diaphragm and spreading to the chest and abdominal wall

Shohei Honda; Tadao Okada; Fumiaki Sasaki; Satsuki Naito; Naoki Sato; Toshiya Kamiyama; Tomoo Itoh; Kanako Chikae Kubota; Satoru Todo

doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.11.018

Pediatric alveolar echinococcosis invading the diaphragm and spreading to the chest and abdominal wall

J Pediatr Surg. 2010 Feb;45(2):e13-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.11.018.

Authors

Shohei Honda¹, Tadao Okada, Fumiaki Sasaki, Satsuki Naito, Naoki Sato, Toshiya Kamiyama, Tomoo Itoh, Kanako Chikae Kubota, Satoru Todo

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo 060-8638, Japan. shohei@sam.hi-ho.ne.jp

PMID: 20152332
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.11.018

Abstract

Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is an endemic disease in certain parts of the world and relatively rare in children. This report describes a 9-year-old girl with hepatic AE invading the diaphragm and directly spreading to the chest and abdominal wall. She was treated by surgical extirpation and albendazole therapy. In advanced hepatic AE, combined therapy of surgical and medical intervention is thought to improve the prognosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Albendazole / therapeutic use*
Child
Combined Modality Therapy
Echinococcosis, Hepatic / diagnosis
Echinococcosis, Hepatic / drug therapy*
Echinococcosis, Hepatic / surgery*
Female
Humans
Prognosis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Albendazole