WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis (in Animals and Humans), Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy; European Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites, ISS, Rome, Italy.
State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment of High Incidence Diseases in Central Asia and WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention and Care Management of Echinococcosis, Urumqi, China.
State Key Laboratory of Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment of High Incidence Diseases in Central Asia and WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention and Care Management of Echinococcosis, Urumqi, China.
Clinical Medical Research Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, China.
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) has a wide world distribution causing important morbidity. Osseous involvement is present in less than 4% of the CE cases. Its diagnosis and therapeutic management is full o...
The study summarizes literature evidence on the management of osseous CE with particular emphasis on new data regarding diagnosis and treatment....
Clinical presentation of osseous CE depends on the skeletal area affected. Diagnosis is mostly based on radiological findings and serology. Recent advances with qPCR on osseous tissue samples seem to ...
The aim of our review is to summarize specific clinical, diagnostic and treatment aspects of pulmonary cystic echinococcosis. The lung is the organ second most affected by cystic echinococcosis with a...
Cystic echinococcosis is one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Development of new diagnostics and treatment modalities is hampered by low investment into research and is accordingly slow....
Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for pulmonary cystic echinococcosis cysts. Parenchyma-sparing surgical techniques should be used whenever possible. Albendazole induces decay of the parasitic cyst...
Echinococcosis remains a major economic and severe public health problem in endemic areas. Bone echinococcosis is rare, and the vertebra and pelvis are the most common sites of echinococcosis involvin...
This study retrospectively analyzed the clinical manifestations, laboratory tests, radiological findings, and treatment of 44 patients with vertebral and pelvic echinococcosis during a period of 16 ye...
The mean age was 43 years (25 males, 19 females; 19-68 years). The most common symptom was pain, followed by numbness, weakness, activity limitation, and progressive paraparesis. Enzyme-linked immunos...
Even in epidemic areas, the incidence of bone echinococcosis is relatively rare. However, when encountering the vertebral and pelvic destruction, consider bone echinococcosis's possibility, especially...
Cystic echinococcosis is a zoonotic infection frequently involving the liver. Treatment options, including surgery, are decided based on the staging of the disease....
Ultrasound is the cornerstone for diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of cystic echinococcosis. MRI can help to evaluate for cystobiliary complications and planning of the surgery. The two main surgical...
Surgical treatment options should be carefully evaluated according to the cystic echinococcosis disease staging. A multidisciplinary approach, including diagnostic and interventional radiology, abdomi...
Cerebral echinococcosis is relatively rare, and it is important to distinguish cerebral cystic echinococcosis (CCE) from cerebral alveolar echinococcosis (CAE) in terms of pathological diagnosis. We a...
We collected 27 cases of cerebral echinococcosis which were diagnosed in the Department of Pathology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University from January 1, 2012, to June 30, 2...
Among 27 cases of cerebral echinococcosis, 23 cases were CAE and 4 cases were CCE. The clinical manifestations of both CCE and CAE patients mainly included headache (21 patients, 77.78%), limb movemen...
With the low incidence of brain echinococcosis, the diagnosis of echinococcosis and the differential diagnosis of CAE and CCE are challenging for pathologists. Grasping the different clinical patholog...
Intra-abdominal and pelvic seeding of hepatic cystic echinococcosis to various organs is a known feature of the disease. Dissemination into distal extremities is uncommon and in this report, we presen...
A 68-year-old male presented with swelling in the right upper leg and discomfort in the right popliteal region. Work-up revealed various cystic mass lesions of different sizes within the liver, intra-...
Hepatic cysts can be easily observed with ultrasonography and the WHO-Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis (WHO-IWGE) classification system is commonly used to further classify cysts. The work-up ...
Extrahepatic dissemination of cystic echinococcosis is commonly encountered in endemic areas. Rarely, hepatic cysts can spread beyond the abdomen towards the distal extremities. Therefore, cystic echi...
Pancreatic echinococcosis accounts for 0.2-0.6% of cases, with the pediatric population being at a higher risk. Most commonly, pancreatic lesions occur in the head of the pancreas (50-58%); and in the...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the diagnostic workflow of patients with alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and to identify possible diagnosis-delaying factors....
The number and type of diagnostic procedures of patients diagnosed with alveolar echinococcosis were investigated. The disease history was recorded on the basis of questionnaires, the available findin...
The definitive diagnosis of alveolar echinococcosis of the liver was made at 26.5 ± 65.0 (mean ± standard deviation) months (min - max: 0 - 344, median = 3). The majority of patients were diagnosed be...
The diagnostic clarification process of AE patients is lengthy and stressful. The psychological burden of a questionable malignant diagnosis is considerable. Early use of contrast-enhanced sonography ...
MRI revealed a thoracic vertebrae lesion in a 40-year-old woman with back pain. She was referred to our institution; MRI demonstrated a mass from the second to the fifth thoracic vertebra and compress...
In 2010, the WHO-Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis (IWGE) published an Expert Consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of echinococcal infections. We provide an update on the diagnosis of cysti...
Ultrasound accurately and reliably depicts the pathognomonic signs of cystic echinococcosis (CE) stages compared with other imaging techniques. Among these, T2-wighted MRI is to be preferred to comput...
In the absence of a focal lesion compatible with a CE cyst, no diagnosis of CE should be attempted. There is urgent need to achieve univocal CE case definitions and consensus diagnostic algorithm, as ...
