Hidatidosis muscular primaria: reporte de un caso

Inés Natividad; Juan Carlos Ferrufino; Alcides García; Ciro Maguiña; César Ramírez

doi:10.17843/rpmesp.2009.261.1343

Authors

Inés Natividad Facultad de Medicina, universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Médico.
Juan Carlos Ferrufino Facultad de Medicina, universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Departamento de Patología, Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Médico patólogo.
Alcides García Facultad de Medicina, universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Médico, cirujano general.
Ciro Maguiña Facultad de Medicina, universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Médico infectólogo.
César Ramírez Departamento de Radiología, Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia. Lima, Perú. Médico radiólogo.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17843/rpmesp.2009.261.1343

Keywords:

Equinococcus granulosus, Echinococcosis, Case report

Abstract

It presents a case of a healthy woman of 28 years with a tumor in his leg attached to soft tissue, she doesn’t have epidemiological history of travel outside Lima, without pulmonary, hepatic or systemic disease and with negative serology for Equinococcus granulosus before, during and after the surgical excision. In a first opportunity, they removed tumor and they didn’t suspect of hydatidosis so they didn’t give a proper treatment, so 16 weeks after, she came back with a relapse, where with a specific diagnosis was performed the surgery and treatment with albendazole, followed up after six months, the patient didn’t have recurrence.