PEDIATRICS Vol. 65 No. 5 May 1980, pp. 1003-1006
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Pulmonary Echinococcosis: A Pediatric Disease of the Southwestern United States

Robert Katz MD1, Shirley Murphy MD1, and Ann Kosloske MD1

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque

Three cases of pulmonary echinococcosis in native American children emphasize the need to consider the diagnosis in the differential diagnosis of mass lesions of the chest when the appropriate environmental conditions are present. Two children presented with a non-productive cough, while one was asymptomatic. Surgery is the treatment of choice for pulmonary echinococcal cysts. All three children did well after thoracotomy, and one child has a normal roentgenogram six years after surgery. Recent evidence seems to indicate that transmission of the Echinococcus among native Americans in the Southwest is increasing, and thus human echinococcal disease may be of increasing clinical importance.

Submitted on July 16, 1979
Accepted on August 30, 1979