Rare Case of Multifocal Alveolar Echinococcosis

Abstract

Teaching Point: Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis can mimic a slow-growing tumor, and multi-organ involvement is rare; imaging has a crucial role in diagnosing this zoonosis that is endemic in the southern part of Belgium.

Keywords

• scattered calcifications
• tumor-like parasitosis
• echinococcosis
• ct
• mri