Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Echinococcosis
In this paper, we present a rare case of pulmonary cyst echinococcosis, in which the patient presented with no symptoms and was misdiagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis. Our case is a prime example of why echinococcosis should be part of the differential when dealing with an immigrant populatio...
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| author | Natalya Kozlova Mohamed Ramadan Christopher Mesa Aijan Ukudeyeva Anna Shengelia Nadezhda Inragimova Rajan Khanna |
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| description | In this paper, we present a rare case of pulmonary cyst echinococcosis, in which the patient presented with no symptoms and was misdiagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis. Our case is a prime example of why echinococcosis should be part of the differential when dealing with an immigrant population. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7ae1eadb830f476c99208f49dbd38f052022-12-22T03:18:21ZengInternational Medical Research and Development CorporationInternational Journal of Biomedicine2158-05102158-05292017-06-017213814010.21103/Article7(2)_CR1Rare Presentation of Pulmonary EchinococcosisNatalya Kozlova0Mohamed Ramadan1Christopher Mesa2Aijan Ukudeyeva3Anna Shengelia4Nadezhda Inragimova5Rajan Khanna6Lincoln Medical and Mental Health HospitalLincoln Medical and Mental Health HospitalLincoln Medical and Mental Health HospitalLincoln Medical and Mental Health HospitalLincoln Medical and Mental Health HospitalLincoln Medical and Mental Health HospitalLincoln Medical and Mental Health HospitalIn this paper, we present a rare case of pulmonary cyst echinococcosis, in which the patient presented with no symptoms and was misdiagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis. Our case is a prime example of why echinococcosis should be part of the differential when dealing with an immigrant population.http://ijbm.org/articles/IJBM_7(2)_CR1.pdfpulmonary cyst echinococcosistuberculosisfine needle aspirationalbendazole |
| spellingShingle | Natalya Kozlova Mohamed Ramadan Christopher Mesa Aijan Ukudeyeva Anna Shengelia Nadezhda Inragimova Rajan Khanna Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Echinococcosis International Journal of Biomedicine pulmonary cyst echinococcosis tuberculosis fine needle aspiration albendazole |
| title | Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Echinococcosis |
| title_full | Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Echinococcosis |
| title_fullStr | Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Echinococcosis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Echinococcosis |
| title_short | Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Echinococcosis |
| title_sort | rare presentation of pulmonary echinococcosis |
| topic | pulmonary cyst echinococcosis tuberculosis fine needle aspiration albendazole |
| url | http://ijbm.org/articles/IJBM_7(2)_CR1.pdf |
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