BACKGROUND: Hydatid disease is caused by the larval form of Echinococcus granulosus. The reported occurrence bony hydatidosis 0.5–3% all cases and 50% them affect spine. Nevertheless, lumbar vertebral involvement extremely rare. most common dorsal level. CASE REPORT: We present case a 32-year-old-military dog handler, who presented in 2018 to urology department with an abdominal retroperitoneal...

a 47-year-old man presented as a dyspnea and fatigue. a transthoracic echocardi-ography (tte) performed to assess valvar heart disease and left ventricular (lv) function showed a large hydatid cysts in the inter ventricular septum bulging to posterior of heart and compressing its overlying muscle as whitish round mass. the patient underwent elective surgery by evacuation of septal hydatid cysts...

Aim: to evaluate the short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic open operations in treatment hepatic echinococcosis. Materials methods. The results echinococcectomies performed from 2013 2020 were retrospectively studied. Laparoscopic considered method choice. Open cases with contraindications approach. Results. In total, 57 patients operated: 47 laparoscopically (including robotic approach ...

Echinococcosis is a human parasitary disease. In 2002, 29 new cases of liver echinococcosis were recorded in Croatia. Liver is the most common site of hydatid cysts. Nine patients with echinoccocal liver disease were operated in our department in 2002. Here we present a case where a patient with verified hydatid cyst in the left liver lobe developed high fever, jaundice, nausea, vomiting and pa...

INTRODUCTION Large simple liver cysts often tend to be symptomatic with pain being the most common symptom. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a retrospective study of patients who had intended laparoscopic surgery for liver cysts between December 2007 and December 2012 at a single institution. RESULTS A total of 31 patients (27 women, four men) had surgery. The median age was 61 years (range 27...

BACKGROUND Intraosseous arachnoid cysts are rare and difficult to diagnose. The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical and radiological semiology of petrous and sphenoid arachnoid cysts and to propose a specific management strategy. METHODS This was a retrospective, descriptive study of patients with arachnoid cysts, which utilized CT, MRI, and the patients' medical histories. R...

OBJECTIVES Hydatid cysts are sometimes confused with different pathologies, and problems arise in their diagnosis and treatment. In this study, cases that are followed up with a diagnosis of lung malignancy and that are detected to have hydatid cysts were retrospectively examined. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seven patients with hydatid cysts whose clinical and radiological features were consistent w...

Improvement of methods treatment odontogenic cysts the jaws continues to be an urgent problem in surgical dentistry and maxillofacial surgery. Currently, most promising is use multicomponent osteoplastic materials order optimize reparative osteogenesis after cystectomy for extensive jaw cysts. The aim study improve method large upper with osteoplasty bone defect biocomposite combination directe...

Background: Endometrioma is a common cause of gynecologic morbidity and the most common benign ovarian cysts are found at surgery. One of the most troubling aspects of treating endometrioma with laparoscopic excision is disease recurrence after surgery. Present study was conducted to evaluate risk factors for the recurrence of endometrioma after first laparoscopic excision. Materials and Method...

Pancreatic cysts are increasingly recognized as a dilemma in clinical practice because of their uncertain risk of malignancy. Because diagnosis by cytology is insensitive, current guidelines suggest using radiographic and clinical criteria to determine the appropriateness of surgery or surveillance, although this is far from perfect. Several cyst fluid biomarkers have been reported to aid diagn...