Obligatory medical device diagnostics.
- Abdominal ultrasonography (ultrasound examination of abdominal organs) – for basic diagnosis [sensitivity (percentage of diseased patients in whom the disease is detected by use of the procedure, i.e., a positive finding occurs): 90-98%; specificity (probability that actually healthy individuals who do not have the disease in question are also detected as healthy by the test): 88-90%; liver lesions due to alveolar echinococcosis: 70% of cases shows “hailstorm or pseudocystic type”]
Optional medical device diagnostics – depending on the results of the history, physical examination, laboratory diagnostics and mandatory medical device diagnostics – for differential diagnosis.
- Computed tomography of the thorax/chest (thoracic CT) – for further diagnosis/for the search of distant metastases and for surgical planning.
- Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen (abdominal CT) – for further diagnosis/for the search for distant metastases and for surgical planning [pathognomonic calcifications].
- Magnetic resonance imaging of the thorax/chest (thoracic MRI) – for advanced diagnostics/for the search for distant metastases and for surgical planning.
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen (abdominal MRI) – detection of variously differentiated echinococcal cysts or for further diagnosis/for the search for distant metastases and for surgical planning.
