Re: Tumor from a shinbone fracture. Help!

Are you near an Echinococcus endemic area?
There used to be a French web site with maps of outbreaks all the way back to the 70's showing the hotspots in France, Italy, Germany and Austria, but it must have been cleansed...
We can only hope that those tests can tell the difference between a hydatid bone cyst and a tumor...

from: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no3/02-0320.htm


According to some authors (1,2), researchers cannot confirm whether E. multilocularis is spreading from historically known E. multilocularis–endemic foci (eastern France, southern Germany, northern Switzerland, and western Austria) to new regions, or whether the Central European E. multilocularis–endemic area is connected with the E. multilocularis–endemic area in Asia, and the tiny worms previously escaped the attention of parasitologists. Our findings may suggest that the parasite’s range has recently expanded, rather than the first identification of formerly unknown E. multilocularis–endemic areas. The parasite was not identified previously in either Red Foxes or wild rodents in Hungary, despite the extensive studies conducted by Murai, Mészáros, Gubányi, and other parasitologists of the Natural History Museum, Budapest. Moreover, human cases have never been reported in Hungary. The photograph and the description of macroscopic lesions (two fist-sized, undulating cysts) in the only presumed report of alveolar echinococcosis written by two surgeons (14) clearly indicate that the case was indeed cystic echinococcosis.