JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, cilt.8, sa.11, ss.1494-1497, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic progressive infestation inducing a slowly progressing, life-threatening tumor-like growth in the liver. It may spread to other organs by regional extension or hematogenous or lymphatic metastasis. Herein, we report a fifteen-year-old patient diagnosed with AE of the liver and simultaneous lung and brain metastasis with a literature review.