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Primary osteolytic pediatric extradural complicated hydatid cyst revealed by a skull vault swelling: a case report and literature review.
2023-04-13
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Hydatidosis is a parasitic infection whose etiological agent is the larva of the cestode Echinococcus granulosus. It is a zoonosis and the human being behaves as an accidental intermediate host in the parasitic cycle. The most frequent clinical presentation is hepatic, followed by pulmonary, with cerebral hydatidosis being extremely rare. Imaging is characteristic, generally dealing with single cystic lesion, usua...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cd95945e-410e-5964-b337-b41bf5263c1e
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2794978/v1