Reporting a single case of cystic echinococcosis in retroperitoneal mass of uncertain origin.

Autor: Di Giambenedetto S; Department of Infectious Diseases, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.; Department of Security and Bioethics, Infectious Disease, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.; Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy., Fagotti A; Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.; Department of Woman, Child, and Public Health, UOC Gynecologic Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy., Quaranta G; Department of Laboratory and Infectious Sciences, A. Gemelli University Hospital IRCCS, 00168, Rome, Italy., Iannone V; Department of Security and Bioethics, Infectious Disease, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. valentina.iannone90@gmail.com., Fancello G; Department of Laboratory and Infectious Sciences, A. Gemelli University Hospital IRCCS, 00168, Rome, Italy., Steiner RJ; Department of Security and Bioethics, Infectious Disease, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy., Mazzon G; Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Radiation Oncology and Hematology; UOC Radiology and Neuroradiology, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy., Masucci L; Department of Basic Biotechnological Sciences, Intensivological and Perioperative Clinics, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, 00168, Rome, Italy., Teodorico E; Department of Security and Bioethics, Infectious Disease, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy., Borghetti A; Department of Infectious Diseases, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.; Department of Security and Bioethics, Infectious Disease, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy., Naldini A; Department of Security and Bioethics, Infectious Disease, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy., Scambia G; Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.; Department of Woman, Child, and Public Health, UOC Gynecologic Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
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Zdroj: Parasitology research [Parasitol Res] 2023 Dec 14; Vol. 123 (1), pp. 40. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 14.
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-023-08018-8
Abstrakt: Echinococcal disease (hydatid disease (HD) is an endemic parasitosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus in the larval stage, and it is typically due to the production of unilocular cystic lesions, usually involving the liver for the majority of patients and the lungs in 25%, but also any other organs can be potentially involved in developing echinococcal disease. We report a case of extrahepatic, retroperitoneal echinococcal disease, caused by Echinococcus granulosus. The patient underwent a surgical removal of the abdominal mass, revealed by abdominal ultrasound and computerized tomography scanning, and in the founded clinical and radiological suspicion of echinococcal disease, multiple bioptical samples were sent for microbiological analysis and albendazole therapy was started; Echinococcus granulosus protoscolices were found on the bioptical sample, and the diagnosis was successfully confirmed. According to the current parasitology literature on echinococcal disease, extrahepatic localization, although rare, can be found, and it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an abdominal mass when epidemiological risk factors and anamnestic data are present, regardless of the usual site of the disease.
(© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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