Hydatid disease or Echinococcosis is caused by the consumption of food contaminated by canine faeces. The incidence of Hydatid disease in pregnancy ranges from 1in 20,000 to 1 in 30,000.The most common site of hydatid cysts is the liver. The diagnosis of liver hydatid cysts is not difficult but the management poses problems more paticularly during pregnancy. Both medical and surgical treatments...

Cases of intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts are very rare. We identified 13 patients with intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts in our clinic over 12 years. Four patients had extrapulmonary cysts only; nine patients had both intrapulmonary and extrapulmonary cysts. Cysts were identified in the pleural space, extrapleural region, diaphragm and chest wall. Thoracotomy was used in all...

Background. Hydatid cyst (HC) disease is endemic in many developing countries, like Yemen, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, especially in the rural regions. The disease has a variable clinical courses and even might be asymptomatic for many years. Objectives. In giant and large pulmonary hydatid cysts, pulmonary resection is the usual method of surgical treatment. In this study, we aimed to evaluate th...

OBJECTIVE Surgery and percutaneous aspiration-injection-re-aspiration (PAIR) are widely accepted treatment modalities for hepatic hydatid cysts. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography (ERCP) acts as a minimally invasive rescue method for the biliary complications of both the hydatid cysts and treatment modalities. The aim of this study was to identify the role of different treatment m...

Introduction : The objective of this study was to give a description of the most prominent atypical radiological presentations of lung hydatidosis. Materials and methods: All patients diagnosed with pulmonary hydatidosis by surgical exploration were included in this study. Standard chest roentgenogram and computed tomography CT) were evaluated before surgery for lung cysts or unknown lesions. R...

There are three stages in the development of hydatid cysts: initial, tumoral and the stage of complications. In the initial and pseudotumoral stages, the diagnosis depends on topographic localisation. In the complications stage, diagnosis is established on the basis of the most frequent clinical manifestations of the gall bladder, of peritoneal syndromes, of complications involving the lungs an...

Echinococcal disease of the liver is a rare parasitic disease in which both humans and wild or domestic animals are affected. Most frequently, liver hydatidosis present as uncomplicated cysts. However, hydatid cysts may present with complications such as cysts ruptured into the biliary tract (12%), cysts rupture involving the lung or pleural space (2.2%), cysts ruptured into the peritoneum (1.6...

Hydatid cyst disease in childhood is still a serious health problem in the rural areas of Turkey and other places where the parasite is endemic. The brain involvement rate varies from 1-2% in hydatid disease. Especially in children, hydatid cysts can grow to enormous sizes, and the cases can remain neurologically intact. In this report, a 7-year-old boy, a 15-year-old girl, and a 10-year-old gi...

The cystic appearance of both oesophageal duplications and pulmonary hydatid cysts can cause a misdiagnosis very easily due to rarity of cystic oesophageal duplications beside the higher incidence of hydatid cyst, especially in endemic areas. Here we report a 7-year-old girl with an oesophageal duplication cyst on the left side misdiagnosed as a hydatid cyst. The aim of the study is to report r...