High mebendazole doses in pulmonary and hepatic hydatid disease.

Messaritakis, J; Psychou, P; Nicolaidou, P; Karpathios, T; Syriopoulou, B; Fretzayas, A; Krikos, F; Matsaniotis, N · Arch Dis Child · 1991

prospective_cohort · Level II

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Abstract

Thirty nine children with 71 hydatid cysts were given mebendazole orally in a dose of 100-200 mg/kg/day for 12 weeks and were followed up for a mean (SD) of 63 (24) months. Twenty children (three of them after a second course) were cured and another two avoided at least one operation. No serious side effects of the drug were observed.

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