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Hydatidosis as a cause of acute appendicitis: a case report

2013-02-01

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Acute appendicitis is considered the most common cause of emergency surgery in children and young adults. The association between parasitic infections and appendicitis has been widely investigated. Hydatidosis, a zoonotic helminthic disease caused by the larval stage of the Echinococcus granulosus, may cause illness in intermediate hosts, generally human and herbivorous animals. This disease is considered hyper en...

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Literature Corpus work: cf746d30-6cd8-5ee5-942c-455181652467
DOI: 10.1016/s2222-1808(13)60015-8
PMCID: PMC4027261

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