Should be Remembered in the Differential Diagnosis of Klatskin Tumour: Alveolar Echinococcosis

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Saka B., Ünlü Akhan A., EROL C., İSTANBULLU TOSUN A., Ertuğrul G.

Turkiye parazitolojii dergisi, vol.44, no.3, pp.179-181, 2020 (Scopus) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 44 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.4274/tpd.galenos.2020.6764
  • Journal Name: Turkiye parazitolojii dergisi
  • Journal Indexes: Scopus, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Veterinary Science Database, Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.179-181
  • Keywords: alveolar hydatid disease, biliary obstruction, Klatskin tumour
  • Istanbul Medipol University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Alveolar echinococcosis is an infectious disease caused by Echinococcus multilocularis and it is frequently diagnosed as a space-occupying lesion in the liver. The growth pattern may be similar to that of a malignant tumour with extensive liver infiltration, spreading into neighbouring organs and forming metastasis-like masses in distant organs. Thus, it is one of the differential diagnoses of liver cancer. We report a case that presented as a klatskin tumour clinically and radiologically, but was revealed by pathologic and serologic work-up. Since the courses of these two diseases, a malignancy and an infectious disease, are far beyond comparison, echinococcosis should always be considered in differential diagnosis of obstructive jaundice, especially in the endemic regions.