Primary cardiac echinococcosis in childhood. Case report.


Emiroğullari N., Uzüm K., Ustünbaş H. B., Andaç H., Taşdemir K.

Scandinavian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, cilt.29, ss.153-6, 1995 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

Özet

Cardiac echinococcosis is rare and usually occurs in adults. In a 12-year-old boy a left ventricular hydatid cyst was diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiography and computed tomography and the cyst was surgically removed.