We describe the diagnosis of a 77-year-old woman admitted to our outpatient department with a 3-month history of abdominal bloating and distension. Abdominal computed tomography revealed a large cystic lesion in the posterior segment of the right hepatic lobe, with a separated germinal layer and widespread ascites with dense internal echoes and septal appearance. The result of a serum Echinococ...

Echinococcosis or hydatid disease is caused by larvae of Echinococcus. In the life cycle of E. granulosus, humans sometimes become accidental intermediate hosts. Humans can orally take up the E. granulosus eggs from infected carnivore excretions by handling the animals or egg-containing feces, plants, eating vegetables, uncooked fruits, and drinking water with the eggs. The hydatid disease is e...

Mucinous cystadenomas of the liver are rare cystic neoplasms, often mistaken for simple cysts or hydatid liver. They generally benign tumors, discovered incidentally on imaging during independent surgeries. Despite their tendency to grow slowly, mucinous can reach symptomatic dimensions. And given potential malignant transformation into cystadenocarcinomas, a misdiagnosis have serious secondary...

Hydatid disease is caused by the larval stages of Echinococcus Granulosus. Most patients with hydatid disease have no symptoms, unless there is compression of vital organs such as the hepatic veins, portal vein, hepatic artery in the liver, bronchia in the lungs or the brain, resulting in life threatening complications like anaphylactic shock and sudden death. There are four treatment strategie...

OBJECTIVE To present a case of hepatic hydatid cyst with a biliary communication that was not suitable for surgery and hence necessitated sclerotherapy with absolute alcohol after occluding the biliary communication with a balloon catheter. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 50-year-old Asian man presented to the surgical emergency department with a 1-year history of repeated attacks of...

Hydatid disease is not common in human populations of highly developed urban areas. However, increasing immigration, travel and international tourism have led to a recent increase in incidence. Surgery remains the method of choice in the management of hepatic hydatid cysts. Laparoscopic treatment of the disease has been questionable so far, though it is feasible and safe in use. We report a cas...