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

• Main Authors: Andreas Neumayr (Author), Giuliana Troia (Author), Chiara de Bernardis (Author), Francesca Tamarozzi (Author), Sam Goblirsch (Author), Luca Piccoli (Author), Christoph Hatz (Author), Carlo Filice (Author), Enrico Brunetti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...