Gottstein Bruno, Reichen Jürg
Institute of Parasitology, University of Berne, Länggass-Strasse 122, CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland.
Clin Chest Med. 2002 Jun;23(2):397-408, ix. doi: 10.1016/s0272-5231(02)00007-2.
Two Echinococcus species may exhibit medical relevance as causative agents of pulmonary forms of echinococcosis. Most importantly, infections with Echinococcus granulosus result in "cystic hydatid disease" or "cystic echinococcosis," which affects the lungs in a considerable ratio of cases. Echinococcus multilocularis, which causes "alveolar echinococcosis," affects the lungs relatively rarely and then usually upon metastasizing from primary hepatic lesions. Cystic echinococcus and alveolar echinococcus differ pathologically and clinically so greatly that they are considered separately in this article, although alveolar echinococcus is covered minimally because of its minor importance regarding lung infections.
两种棘球绦虫作为肺型棘球蚴病的病原体可能具有医学相关性。最重要的是,细粒棘球绦虫感染会导致“囊型包虫病”或“囊型棘球蚴病”,在相当比例的病例中会影响肺部。多房棘球绦虫会导致“肺泡型棘球蚴病”,相对很少影响肺部,通常是在从原发性肝脏病变转移时才会影响肺部。囊型棘球蚴病和肺泡型棘球蚴病在病理和临床上差异极大,因此本文将分别进行讨论,不过由于肺泡型棘球蚴病对肺部感染的重要性较小,所以讨论较少。