Echinococcosis is endemic in Mediterranean regions and is found primarily in the liver. Biliary fistula is a common complication, but major biliary duct involvement is very rare, and occurs in 0.47% of patients with hepatic hydatid disease. Cyst rupture causing secondary peritoneal hydatidosis is a rare but serious complication. We report the case of a 27-year-old man with multiple peritoneal a...

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation caused by the larval form of Echinocococcus. In human, the most commonly affected organs are liver and lung. Most cysts remain clinically silent and are diagnosed incidentally or when complications occur. In Korea, hydatid disease is rare and surgically treated cases have been reported in the Korean literature. However, it is expected to confront this ...

The treatment of hydatid cyst includes various forms: from open surgery to laparoscopic and endoscopic therapies, all enhanced by specific antiparasitic drugs. In this chapter are summarized the main techniques of laparoscopic treatment of hydatid cyst and its major postoperative complications. Surgical techniques described vary depending on the topographic location, expression on the surface o...

BACKGROUND Hydatid disease of the liver is endemic in cattle rearing areas of the world. A variety of treatment options are available in its management. The common treatment options are medical therapy, surgery and puncture-aspiration-injection-reaspiration (PAIR) therapy. OBJECTIVES This study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of PAIR therapy in the treatment of hepatic hydatid dis...

Based on a case operated in our clinic the paper discusses the various applications of robotic surgery in the surgical treatment of the hepatic hydatid cyst. We present the case of a 29year-old patient who presented to our clinic with chronic abdominal pain (8 months) localized in the right upper quadrant, without irradiation and showing no other accompanying phenomena. The patient was hospital...

conclusion pair therapy is an effective minimally invasive treatment for gharbi type i-iii hepatic hydatid cysts. it is a cost effective and safe procedure with significant reduction in the duration of hospital stay. results ten patients (66.7%) had gharbi type i cysts, two (13.3%) had type ii and three (20%) had type iii cysts. all the patients (100%) showed reduction in cyst size over a 3-6 m...

Introduction. Although adrenal cysts are uncommon, the incidence rate is increasing with the advances in radiological technologies. The incidental detection of adrenal cysts nowadays has become more frequent as a result of the increase usage of high quality imaging modalities. Adrenal cysts originate from the adrenal gland and can be classified into either true or pseudocyst. Presentation of Ca...

Acute pancreatitis is a rare complication of hydatidosis and the successful use of endoscopic sphincterotomy associated with extraction of hydatid membranes has been rarely reported. We describe a young man who developed acute pancreatitis after rupture of an echinococcus cyst, located at the left hepatic lobe, into the biliary tract. The cause of pancreatitis was confirmed by endoscopic retrog...

We report the laparoscopic use of a novel perforator-grinder-aspirator apparatus, specifically designed for the evacuation of hydatid cysts. Eleven hepatic hydatid cysts in six patients were treated by laparoscopic technique using this tool, which penetrates the cyst mainly by opening a hole in the cyst wall, grinds the particulate, and sucks it all out; classic surgical aspirators are almost a...

Hydatid cyst disease is a common worldwide zoonosis. Most of the cysts are located in the liver. Abscess formation due to infection of the cyst is an important complication. M. morganii, a Gram-negative Bacillus, is a quite rare cause of liver abscess. A 77-year-old woman was admitted to hospital with complaints of fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and abdominal pain located in...