Cystic echinococcosis (CE), also known as "hydatid disease" (HD), is a zoonotic infection caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus, which infects humans as intermediate hosts through the orofecal route. Carried by the intestinal venous blood, the embryos released by the eggs of the tapeworms can reach every organ, especially the liver, turning into a hydatid cyst. Usually asymptoma...

The patient was a 71-year-old man. Two months after using prednisolone at a dose of 80 mg/day for the treatment of drug-induced interstitial pneumonia induced by chemotherapy following lung cancer surgery, his chest x-ray fi lm showed cavitary shadows, and Nocardia farcinica was detected from subcutaneous abscess, sputum, urine, and blood cultures. Thus, disseminated nocardiosis involving multi...

A 52yearold man was referred to our hospital owing to fever of unknown origin lasting for 3 months. On examination, there was tenderness, swelling, and redness in both of his upper arms (Figure 1A). During a prior hospitalization, the patient had received as many as 250 intramuscular injections of hydroxyzine in his gluteus medius muscles and deltoid muscles bilaterally due to severe pain after...

Cases of human dirofilariasis have been reported in several countries around the world, including a large number in the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. Most commonly, these cases have subcutaneous or pulmonary involvement; however, there have been few reports of dirofilariasis involving structures such as large vessels, mesentery, the spermatic cord, and liver. We present ...

One of the most unusual complications in cholethiasis is spontaneous cholecystocutaneous fistula, which has only been reported a few times in the literature.  We report the case of a 76 year old man who presented with a right hypochondrium subcutaneous abscess, with pain evoked through palpation.  No comorbidity in the patient's medical history were noted.   Confirmation of cholecystocutaneous ...

introduction: an otogenic brain abscess is a common ent problem but an otogenic trapezius abscess can also be experienced in otolaryngological practice, particularly in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media.   case report: we report a rare case of a trapezius abscess in an eight-year-old girl who presented at the ent, head and neck surgery postgraduate medical institute, lady reading h...