ABSTRACT

Cystic echinococcosis is a parasitic disease caused by the Echinococcus tapeworm. The disease can often affect organs such as the liver and lungs, muscles, bones, kidneys, brain, and spleen. Spinal cystic echinococcosis has been reported very rarely in the literature. In this report; we present a pediatric case with spinal cystic echinococcosis, who was diagnosed with multiple cystic echinococcosis in the liver and lungs and was admitted with complaints of difficulty in walking and leg pain 1 year after the albendazole treatment, which he had been taking for 3.5 years. If a diagnosis of cystic echinococcosis was made in any organ, recurrences may occur in another organ at some time, even if the treatment is completed.

Keywords: Cystic echinococcosis, spinal, recurrence

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Recurrence from the Spinal Region of the Patient Whose Treatment Was Completed with Liver and Lung Cystic Echinococcosis: A Rare Pediatric Case of Spinal Cystic Echinococcosis

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