[Metastatic echinococcosis as a rare differential diagnosis of therapy refractory bronchitis]

Pneumologie. 1992 Mar;46(3):118-21.
[Article in German]

Abstract

In a 68 year old male german patient we found a transdiaphragmatic perforation of a superinfected liver echinococcus granulosus cyst into the bronchial system as cause of a purulent bronchitis resistant to treatment. After operative removal and oversewing of diaphragm bronchitis was cured and the patient could be discharged.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Bronchial Fistula / complications
  • Bronchial Fistula / diagnosis
  • Bronchial Fistula / surgery
  • Bronchitis / etiology*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diaphragm / surgery
  • Echinococcosis, Hepatic / complications
  • Echinococcosis, Hepatic / diagnosis*
  • Echinococcosis, Hepatic / surgery
  • Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / complications
  • Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
  • Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male