Cystic Echinococcosis in Children: Ten Years of Experience and Which Laboratory Result in Evaluating Ruptured Cases?

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 characteristics, presenting symptoms, physical examination, radiological findings, treatments children who were treated hospital followed up regularly between January 2011 December 2020.
 Results
 The sample 42 included 19 (45.2%) girls, median age 125.5 (34-209) months. most symptom abdominal pain (50%), examination finding decreased breath sounds (23.8%). Thirty-five (83.3%) patients had single organ involvement 7 (16.7) multiple involvement. Cysts detected right lobe liver 24 (75%) hepatic cysts left (58.3%) pulmonary cysts. size 57.5 (12-140) mm. IHA titer, eosinophil count, percentage, sedimentation value statistically significantly higher than those without rupture (p= 0.002, p= 0.003, 0.02, respectively).
 Conclusions
 Initial pathological at high can be used distinguish cases.