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Florent Valour1, Safia Khenifer1, Nellie Della-Schiava2
1Internal Medicine Department, Groupement Hospitalier Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon, France.
Parasitology International
|November 27, 2013
Abstract:
Cystic echinococcosis is a world wild zoonosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus, leading to hepatic and lung cysts with a usually slight growth rate. We report the case of an 82year-old Algerian woman with hepatic and lung cystic echinococcosis with a 10-fold size increase in 6months.
