Primary hydatid cyst of the round ligament: case report.

Echinococcosis is a zoonotic infection in which the liver is the organ most frequently involved, followed by the lung and sometimes the heart, spleen, kidney and brain [1]. Hydatid cyst can be seen in almost every part of the human body [2–5]. Despite the common involvement of the liver in terms of location, only 2 cases of isolated hydatid cyst of the round ligament of the liver have been reported, first in 1985 in Italian [6] and then in 1993 in Spanish [7]. We present here the third case of round ligament hydatid cyst.