Personalized management of patients with inoperable alveolar echinococcosis undergoing treatment with albendazole: usefulness of positron-emission-tomography combined with serological and computed tomography follow-up.

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Crouzet, J. | Grenouillet, F. | Delabrousse, E. | Blagosklonov, O. | Thevenot, T. | Di Martino, V. | Piarroux, R. | Mantion, G. A. | Bresson-Hadni, S.

Edité par CCSD ; Elsevier for the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases -

International audience. The present study aimed to identify a sub-group of inoperable alveolar echinococcosis (AE) patients undergoing long-term treatment with benzimidazole (BZM) who presented with an evolution suggestive of a parasitocidal effect. An evolution compatible with parasite death was observed in five patients.

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