Hydatid cyst is a disease caused by a parasitic tapeworm, Echinococcus granulosus, and most commonly involves liver and lung. Ruptured pulmonary hydatid cyst can present a diagnostic challenge, and radiograph can be inconclusive. Anaphylactic reaction is a rare complication of ruptured pulmonary hydatid cyst. A 22-year-old male came to our emergency department in shock with symptoms of shortnes...

Hydatid cyst disease is a parasitic disease caused by the larval forms of echinococci. Although the liver and lungs are the most common organs affected by the disease, it may appear rarely in central nervous system. It has two main forms as the cystic form and alveolar form. Cerebral hydatid cyst is more common in pediatric population and 75% of patients in the present series were children. Esp...

ERDOGMUS, B., YAZICI, B., AKCAN, Y., OZDERE, B.A., KORKMAZ, U. and ALCELIK, A. Latent Fatality Due to Hydatid Cyst Rupture after a Severe Cough Episode. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2005, 205 (3), 293-296 ── Hydatid disease is a parasitic disease caused by Ecinococcus granulosus characterised by cyst formation in various organs. The infestation mostly involves the liver. Hydatid cysts of the liver can ...

A tailgut cyst is a rare developmental lesion and usually is located in the retrorectal or presacral space. Extrahepatic hydatid disease has been reported in several locations including the pelvis and it often poses a diagnostic challenge. There are very few reported cases of primary perineal hydatid cysts. We present the multimodality imaging findings of a tailgut cyst and concurrent perineal ...

Surgery is still the gold standard in the treatment of hepatic hydatid disease. One of the major problems associated with hydatid cyst surgery is biliary fistula. In this report, we aimed to describe a laparoscopic internal drainage method for the treatment of complicated hepatic hydatid cyst in order to prevent long-term biliary fistulas. A 44-year-old female was referred to our clinic with th...

Thyroid is a rare localization for hydatid cyst. Although the incidence of hydatid cyst is high in this geographic area, we have had only two cases of thyroid involvement in the last 10 years in Ghaem medical center in Mashhad.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate acute abdomen cases that developed as a result of spontaneous perforations of hydatid liver cysts in our regions, where hydatid cyst disease is endemic. Methods: The records of 218 hydatid cyst patients who underwent surgery at our clinic between 01.01.2012 and 01.08.2016 were retrospectively reviewed. Twelve (5.5%) cases who required emergency ...

Hydatid disease is a parasitic disease endemic in Romania which occurs frequently in liver and lungs, but it can also be present in almost any part of the body. We present the rare case of a 37-year-old male which was admitted in our service with a large hydatid cyst at the level of the right thoracic outlet and we were not able initially to establish its exact origin, liver or right lung. Afte...