Justified concern or exaggerated fear: the risk of anaphylaxis in percutaneous treatment of cystic echinococcosis-a systematic literature review.

• Hauptverfasser: Andreas Neumayr (Verfasst von), Giuliana Troia (Verfasst von), Chiara de Bernardis (Verfasst von), Francesca Tamarozzi (Verfasst von), Sam Goblirsch (Verfasst von), Luca Piccoli (Verfasst von), Christoph Hatz (Verfasst von), Carlo Filice (Verfasst von), Enrico Brunetti (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Percutaneous treatment (PT) emerged in the mid-1980s as an alternative to surgery for selected cases of abdominal cystic echinococcosis (CE). Despite its efficacy and widespread use, the puncture of echinococcal cysts is still far from being universally accepted. One of the main reasons for this rel...