MULTIPLE HYDATID CYSTS OF THE BRAIN - A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THELITERATURE

Authors
YUCEER N GUVEN MB YILMAZ H
Citation
N. Yuceer et al., MULTIPLE HYDATID CYSTS OF THE BRAIN - A CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW OF THELITERATURE, Neurosurgical review, 21(2-3), 1998, pp. 181-184
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology",Surgery
Journal title
Neurosurgical review → ACNP
ISSN journal
03445607
Volume
21
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
181 - 184
Database
ISI
SICI code
0344-5607(1998)21:2-3<181:MHCOTB>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Multiple hydatid cysts of the brain are uncommon and map be either pri mary or secondary. We report a 12-year-old child with multiple hydatid cysts of the brain occuring 1 year after surgical rupture of a primar y large and infected cerebral hydatid cyst. Surgical removal of hydati d cysts was successfully performed. Albendazole (10 mg/kg twice daily for 12 weeks) was administered to the patient in the postoperative sta ge.