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BACKGROUND
To analyze the clinical, bacteriologic, diagnostic and therapeutic features of patients with Fasciola hepatica (FH) in our hospital.
METHODS
We reviewed all the patients with a diagnosis of fascioliasis from 1975 to 1999 in the Aranzazu Hospital in San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa, Spain).
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the sonographic features of hepatic lesions in patients with fascioliasis to help determine the utility of sonography in diagnosing this disorder in patients from areas in which Fasciola hepatica infestation is endemic.
METHODS
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Two cases of hepatic human fascioliasis, both with antecedents of eating watercress, hepatobiliary symptoms and high eosinophilia are described. In the first one (42 year-old male), at the beginning the abdominal ecotomographical and computed tomography images suggested an hepatic tumor, but