A Case of Alveolar Echinococcosis Presenting as Cerebral and Spinal Intradural Metastases
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Guner Sonmez; Ali Kemal Sivrioglu; Berksan Simsek; Mahir Celik; Guneri Atalan
- Source
- Subject
- 0301 basic medicine
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
biology
business.industry
Central nervous system
Alveolar echinococcosis
Case Report
General Medicine
030108 mycology & parasitology
respiratory system
medicine.disease
Echinococcus multilocularis
biology.organism_classification
Parasitic infection
03 medical and health sciences
medicine.anatomical_structure
Immunology
parasitic diseases
Alveolar hydatid disease
medicine
business
- Language
- English
Alveolar echinococcosis is a chronic and serious, even lethal, parasitic infection caused by the helminth Echinococcus multilocularis. The involvement of Central Nervous System is reported to be 1-3% in literature. Brain involvement is considered a sign of the terminal phase of alveolar echinococcosis. We here in reported a 67-year-old female who had liver alveolar hydatid disease with brain and spinal intradural metastases.