Life Threatening Cause Of Hemopthysis In A Child: Pulmonary hydatic cyst

Diagnosis of Hydatic Pulmonary Cyst

When x-rays were discovered in 1895 specialists started to describe the radiologic aspects of the pulmonary diseases. Levy-Dorn and Zadek affirmed that the characteristic picture of an entire simple cyst in the lungs is a round shadow with neat borders. As every symbol in biology, this affirmation proved to be false and so Lanari was able to say that the most perfect image of an hydatic cyst he...

Successful Treatment of Bilateral Pulmonary Hydatic Cysts in a Child with Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Few data are available about hydatid cysts in patients with malignancy; however, these have rarely been described in association with leukemia. The purpose of this report was to present an unusual case of coexisting leukemia and pulmonary hydatid cysts.This study presented a 13-year-old boy with acute myeloid leukemia who was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary hydatid cysts after the completion...

A Life-Threatening Bronchogenic Cyst

A bronchogenic cyst causing cardiac tamponade is a rare condition. We report an unusual case of a bronchogenic cyst that caused cardiac tamponade. A 49-year-old female patient presented at our emergency room with complaints of palpitations and shortness of breath that had lasted for 5 days preceding the visit. Echocardiography revealed a very large cystic mass compressing the left a trium poste...

Life threatening epilepsy in a child.

Covert bronchogenic cyst as a cause of life-threatening cardiopulmonary impairment.

Three years ago, this 50-year-old woman had been admitted to another hospital with a cardiac dysrhythmia and a large pericardial effusion requiring drainage. Following drainage, a chest radiograph showed cardiomegaly and left atrial enlargement. Echocardiography suggested the possibility of cor triatrium but, at subsequent transoesophageal echocardiography the left atrium was reported to be nor...