Abstract
3/2024
vol. 10
Review paper
Echinococcosis of the liver in Poland – review of the literature and our own clinical material
- Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Department of Surgical and Transplantation Nursing and Extracorporeal Treatment, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Department of General Biology and Parasitology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- 1st Department of Clinical Radiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Department of Transplantology, Immunology, Nephrology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Chair and Department of Oral Surgery, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
Clin Exp HEPATOL 2024; 10, 3: 150-158
Online publish date: 2024/07/24
Echinococcosis is considered one of the world’s most dangerous zoonoses, and the tapeworm that causes it is one of the two most dangerous parasites to humans globally. Untreated cases may be associated with as high as 90% mortality. The incidence of this pathology is increasing. The authors present an up-to-date review of the literature on liver echinococcosis; they also present their own material of 73 patients with liver echinococcosis treated in the Department of General and Transplant Surgery since 2019.
Keywords
albendazole, Echinococcus multilocularis, liver resection, Echinococcus granulosus, liver cysts
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