 Echinococcosis
"Echinococcosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An infection caused by the infestation of the larval form of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus. The liver, lungs, and kidney are the most common areas of infestation.
| Descriptor ID |
D004443
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C03.335.190.396
|
| Concept/Terms |
Echinococcosis- Echinococcosis
- Echinococcoses
- Echinococcus Infection
- Echinococcus Infections
- Infection, Echinococcus
- Hydatidosis
- Hydatidoses
- Cysts, Hydatid
- Cyst, Hydatid
- Hydatid Cysts
- Hydatid Cyst
- Hydatid Disease
- Hydatid Diseases
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Echinococcosis".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Echinococcosis".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Echinococcosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Echinococcosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Echinococcosis" by people in Profiles.
-
Groves DW, Klion AD, Chen MY, Arai AE. Swiss cheese heart. Eur Heart J. 2018 01 14; 39(3):255-256.
-
Eckle T, Peter J, R?ttimann S. [A very uncommon reason for chest pain]. Ther Umsch. 2012 Dec; 69(12):679-82.
-
Franco-Paredes C, Rouphael N, M?ndez J, Folch E, Rodr?guez-Morales AJ, Santos JI, Hurst JW. Cardiac manifestations of parasitic infections part 3: pericardial and miscellaneous cardiopulmonary manifestations. Clin Cardiol. 2007 Jun; 30(6):277-80.
-
Franco-Paredes C, Nicolls D, Kempker R, Dismukes R, Kozarsky P. Pelvic echinococcosis in a Northern Iraqi refugee. J Travel Med. 2006 Mar-Apr; 13(2):119-22.
-
Polat P, Kantarci M, Alper F, Suma S, Koruyucu MB, Okur A. Hydatid disease from head to toe. Radiographics. 2003 Mar-Apr; 23(2):475-94; quiz 536-7.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|