Hydatid cyst or Cystic Echinococcosis continues to be an important problem in terms of public health as well animal regions with low socio-cultural level where preventive medicine cannot fully performed. In this study, it is aimed make evaluation about the situation cattle slaughtered region by examining lungs and livers a private abottoir Eskişehir hydatid cyst. For purpose, 150 slaughtering w...

: 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...

a hydatid cyst is a zoonotic infection caused by the larval forms of mostly the echinococcus granulosus. in humans, the most common site of cyst development is the liver (60%), followed by the lungs (20%), and much less commonly in other organs such as kidney, spleen, brain, and other soft tissues. the localization of cysts in muscles and subcutaneous is very rare. we report a case of 38-year-o...

BACKGROUND Several techniques have been described in liver hydatid disease surgery, with most well known partial cystectomy, capitonage and introflexion. METHODS We present a technical modification on open partial cystectomy for liver hydatid disease. We performed this operation in 2 patients with liver echinococcosis. The cyst is being unroofed and evacuated from the daughter cysts. The iden...

background: vast majority of complaints and physical examination findings of hydatid disease are common in emergency room patients. different emergency presentations of hydatid cyst disease and their treatment are evaluated. we studied preoperative laboratory findings of these patients to identify any parameters to predict hydatid cyst-biliary system communication. methods: we reviewed the file...

Hydatid disease of the liver is highly prevalent in oriental countries including Turkey, in which their population live mostly in rural areas. The outcome of surgical methods used in the management of a cystic cavity in patients with hepatic hydatid disease was evaluated. Three hundred and forty consecutive patients who presented to Department of General Surgery between 1988 and 1996 with hepat...

Rupture of hydatid liver cyst into biliary tree is frequent complications that involvethe common hepatic duct, lobar biliary branches, the small intrahepatic bile ducts,but rarely rupture into common bile duct. The rupture of hydatid cyst is serious life threating event. The authors are reporting a case of total rupture of hydatid cyst of liver into common bile duct. A 50-year-old male patient ...

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...

BACKGROUND Infection of the spleen with echinococcus is a rare clinical entity. Because the diagnosis of a splenic infestation with echinococcus is sometimes delayed, large hydatid cysts or pseudotumors may develop, demanding a differential surgical approach to cure the disease. METHODS In a retrospective study 10 patients out of 250 with abdominal echinococcosis (4%) were identified to have ...

a hydatid cyst is a zoonotic infection caused by the larval forms of mostly the echinococcus granulosus. in humans, the most common site of cyst development is the liver (60%), followed by the lungs (20%), and much less commonly in other organs such as kidney, spleen, brain, and other soft tissues. the localization of cysts in muscles and subcutaneous is very rare. we report a case of 38-year-o...