# alveolar echinococcosis

> 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

**Wikidata**: [Q448768](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q448768)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveolar_hydatid_disease)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/alveolar-echinococcosis


## References

1. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29
2. Disease Ontology
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. [Identifiers.org](http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/collections/MIR:00000233)
5. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)