alveolar echinococcosis

Also known as AHD, alveolar colloid of the liver, alveolococcosis, multilocular echinococcosis, small fox tapeworm, echinococcus multilocularis, Multilocular hydatid, echinococcus multilocularis infection

echinococcosis that is caused by the larvae of Echinococcus multilocularis affecting the liver as a slow growing, destructive tumor, with abdominal pain, biliary obstruction, and occasionally metastatic lesions into the lungs and brain