

@article {3068,
	title = {{WHO} classification of alveolar echinococcosis: principles and application},
	journal = {Parasitology International},
	volume = {55 Suppl},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {S283{\textendash}287},
	abstract = {{Alveolar echinococcosis is caused by the larval stage of the fox tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) and is frequently diagnosed as a space occupying lesion in the liver. The growth pattern resembles that of a malignant tumor with infiltration throughout the liver, spreading into neighbouring organs and metastases formation in distant organs. Thus, one of the prevailing differential diagnoses is liver cancer. Guided by the Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM) system of liver cancer, the European Network for Concerted Surveillance of Alveolar Echinococcosis and the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis proposed a clinical classification for alveolar echinococcosis. It was designated as PNM system (P = parasitic mass in the liver},
	keywords = {Animals, Echinococcosis, Echinococcus multilocularis, Foxes, Hepatic, Humans, Liver, World Health Organization},
	issn = {1383-5769},
	doi = {10.1016/j.parint.2005.11.041},
	author = {Kern, Peter and Wen, Hao and Sato, Naoki and Vuitton, Dominique A. and Gruener, Beate and Shao, Yinmei and Delabrousse, Eric and Kratzer, Wolfgang and Bresson-Hadni, Solange}
}
