UNLABELLED The complications of the hydatid cyst of the liver are dominated by infection and rupture. The compression of adjacent organs (mainly the inferior vena cava, the portal vein and the bile ducts) can be seen, when the cyst is located in the dome, in the hilum or within the hepatic parenchyma. Upper digestive stenosis by compression of the duodenum by the hydatid cyst is an exceptional ...

Background and Aims: Hydatid cyst disease is one of the most common parasitic zoonotic diseases in Iran and the most common involved sites, are lungs and liver. The best treatment of this disease is surgery. The aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology and early complications of surgery of hydatid cyst of lung and liver in patients referred to Afzalipour Hospital afil...

: Hydatid cyst is one of the predominantly cystic liver lesions and also a zoonotic disease that highly endemic in Mediterranean region. This condition has extensive differential diagnoses, such as hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma, rare benign tumor, which commonly occurs infants children, extremely adults. Its imaging findings vary from tumor to solid mass occupying or both lobes liver. We report...

Aim
 Hydatid disease (Echinococcosis) is a common zoonosis in countries that are involved livestock such as our country. Our study aims to evaluate pediatric cases with hydatid over the last decade region and determine significance of initial clinical laboratory findings distinguishing ruptured cyst cases.
 Materials Methods
 A retrospective analysis was made on demographic chara...

The case described is of a primary liver cell carcinoma (PLCC), which was initially misdiagnosed as hepatic hydatid disease. The computed tomographic appearances ofhepatic hydatid disease are often characteristic although not specific. When supported by the clinical findings, however, they will probably not be confused with other liver masses. In this case the presence of peripheral rim calcifi...

To cite: Neelakantan S, Babu AAS, Anandarajan R, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016217118 DESCRIPTION A 51-year-old man presented with a history of vague abdominal pain and progressively increasing abdominal distension. Abdominal examination revealed hepatomegaly with a firm nodular liver palpable below the costal margin with mild tenderne...