Hydatid cysts caused by Echinococcus species mainly involve visceral organs. Rarely skeletal involvement occurs. The spine and pelvis account for half of the cases osseous hydatidosis, making humeral hydatid one rarest conditions. We report a case hydatidosis in 42-year male who presented to us with pain swelling over left upper arm, radiological investigations suggestive cystic lesions were in...

We present the case of a female patient with a diagnosis of hydatidosis located in the heart. Although echinococcosis is endemic to our country, very few cases of cardiac hydatidosis are normally reported. In our patient, the hydatid cyst was located in the septum and in the right ventricular cavity; it presented other unusual features, such as the fact that it was located exclusively in the he...

A 46-year-old male shepherd presented with a mildly painful mass 4.5 cm in diameter localized at the right groin and thigh, diffuse edema involving the right leg lasting for 2 weeks, and fever. The patient had had eight previous operations for diffuse hydatidosis with reported intraperitoneal seeding, but further information was unavailable. Laboratory tests are shown in Table 1. An abdominal u...

of progressive dysphagia. He had a past medical history of recurrent spinal hyda− tidosis at the D1 ± 2 level, which was sur− gically treated in 2000 and 2002 with a total corporectomy of the D1 vertebrae, removal of cysts, arthrodesis with a Moss prosthesis, and insertion of a titanium implant. In 2004, computed tomography (CT) showed the migration of the pros− thesis to the posterior mediasti...