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Alveolar Hydatid Disease
Aka: Alveolar Hydatid Disease, Echinococcus multilocularis, Alveolar Echinococcosis
- See Also
- Hydatid Disease
- Epidemiology
- Endemic regions
- Central Europe
- Siberia
- North America
- North central United States and Canada
- Alaska (Eskimos)
- Definitive Host: Fox
- Intermediate host: Rodents. Humans
- Etiology
- Echinococcus multilocularis
- Pathophysiology
- Caused by larvae of cestode Echinococcus multilocularis
- Causes a highly malignant form of Echinococcosis
- Primary infection site is liver
- Spreads contiguously in cancer like form
- Ultimately results in death by hepatic insufficiency
- Lung or brain metastases may occur
- References
- Chrieki (2002) Am Fam Physician 66(5):817-20 [PubMed]