Solitary pericardial hydatid cyst encompassing the heart
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Solitary pericardial hydatid cyst encompassing the heart.
A 56-year old lady presented with mild chest pain. The echocar-diography revealed gross pericardial effusion. Repeated percu-taneous aspirations were performed. Ultimately, computed tomography helped in reaching the diagnosis of pericardial hydatid disease (Fig. 1A). On operating, a single infected cyst was found encompassing the heart with multiple daughter cysts (Figs 1B and 2A–C). Figure 1: ...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1010-7940,1873-734X
DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezs249