Primary muscular hydatidosis: a case report

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.

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Published

2009-03-31

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Case Report

How to Cite

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Natividad I, Ferrufino JC, García A, Maguiña C, Ramírez C. Primary muscular hydatidosis: a case report. Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica [Internet]. 2009 Mar. 31 [cited 2024 Mar. 28];26(1). Available from: https://rpmesp.ins.gob.pe/index.php/rpmesp/article/view/1343