Five patients with hepatic (3), pelvic (1) or spinal (1) hydatid cysts received 10 mg/kg/d albendazole for 1-3 months prior to surgery. Daughter cysts were present in the spinal hydatid and in one patient with hepatic disease. Electron microscope examination of the cyst tissue of the pelvic and the 2 hepatic cysts lacking daughter cysts showed no evidence of germinal layer, and the protoscolece...

Hydatid cyst is a common health problem of world in sheep grazing area. Liver is the most commonly involved organ. Splenic hydatid cyst is uncommon and its isolated involvement is very rare. We are presenting a case of isolated hydatid cyst of spleen in a sixty one year old female patient with complaints of pain in the left hypochondrium, dyspepsia and features of gastritis for the last 1 year....

The treatment of the liver hydatid cyst is by far from being well codified and continues to be the subject of countless medical contradictions. The numerous surgical therapeutic methods proposed are approved or disapproved by various surgeons, so that it is very difficult to appreciate the value of a surgical procedure which appears very efficient in certain statistics but which generates compl...

Both in vitro and in vivo models have demonstrated that some parasites can interfere with tumor cell growth. The present study investigates the anticancer activity of hydatid cyst protoscolices on WEHI-164 fibrosarcoma cells and baby hamster kidney (BHK) fibroblast cells in vitro. Those above two cell types were treated with live hydatid cyst protoscolices or left untreated for control groups. ...

Hydatid cyst liver rupture into the biliary tree may involve the common hepatic duct, lobar biliary branches, the small intrahepatic bile ducts or rarely the gallbladder. Rupture can be occult or frank. A frank intrabiliary rupture of hepatic hydatid cyst is a rare but serious event. The authors are reporting a case of concomitant rupture of hydatid cyst of liver into right hepatic duct and the...

Hydatid cyst is a disease caused by Echinococcus Granulosus and Alveolaris. Often it is localized in the liver and lung. The disease is endemic in Turkey, Mediterranean countries, South Africa, the Middle East, South America and New Zeland [1]. The majority of patients are asymptomatic, with rarely seen signs of cough, dyspnea. Cysts may be symptomatic depending on its size, location and compli...

Encountered throughout the history, the cyst hydatid is a parasitary disease caused by Echinococcus Granulosus. Its prevalence in Turkey is presumed to be around 50 per 100 thousand (1). Cyst hydatid settles in the liver almost at a rate of 60% and about 30% in the lungs. The cysts settling in the lungs are generally solitary and asymptomatic (2). However, it provides findings in some patients ...

hydatid disease, caused by echinococcusgranulosus, is a common parasitic infection of the liver. disseminated intra-abdominal hydatid disease may occur with the rupture of the hydatid cyst into the peritoneal cavity, producing secondary echinococcosis. but primary hydatid cyst in the pelvis is rare. we report a case of bilateral hydatid cyst of the pelvis in a 53years old woman presented with a...

Background: Hydatid cyst is caused by Echinococcus species mainly, E. granulosus and E. multilocularis. In developing countries like India, it is still a major problem. It can involve any organ and can mimic almost any pathological condition. Methods: The present study was carried out from January 2016 to January 2017. A total 6 cases of hydatid cyst operated laproscopically were studied retros...