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Complications of Spinal Hydatidosis

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It has been reported that hydatid disease involving the vertebral body and paraspinal muscles is rare, even in rural areas where echinococcosis is endemic. The treatment of choice for spinal hydatidosis is surgical resection of the affected vertebrae combined with stabilization, followed by postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. Nevertheless, the recurrence rate is extremely high, and radical resection is often impossible to achieve in cases of extradural lesions involving the spine due to rupture of the hydatid cyst during surgery.

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  1. Department of Advanced Medicine for Spine and Spinal Cord Disorders, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, North-15, West-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8638, Japan

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Sudo, H. (2014). Complications of Spinal Hydatidosis. In: Turgut, M. (eds) Hydatidosis of the Central Nervous System: Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54359-3_18

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