Of 1055 patients treated surgically for pulmonary hydatid disease, most (950) had isolated lung cysts, the other 105 having both liver and lung cysts. The chest radiograph was most valuable in diagnosis; the Casoni and Weinberg tests and blood eosinophil counts were found to be diagnostically unreliable. One thousand and seventy seven primary operations were performed. Cystotomy and capitonnage...

Hydatid cyst disease is still a problem in Turkey, especially in the east Anatolian region, as well as in many other places in the world. A retrospective review was made of the surgical treatment of 30 patients with pulmonary hydatid cysts during the last 3 yrs. Nineteen patients were male and 11 female with an average age of 23.5 yrs (range 4-44 yrs). Cystotomy and capitonnage were performed i...

A 20 year-old woman was admitted to our clinic complaining of dyspnea, cough, chest pain and pleural effusion. The diagnosis of pulmonary hydatid cyst was made on the basis of parasitology laboratory findings, computed tomographic results and chest radiographic findings. A giant pulmonary hydatid cyst (33x14x12 cm) was located in the left lower lobe, which involved more than 90% of the lobe. Th...

A 47-year-old man presented as a dyspnea and fatigue. A transthoracic echocardiography (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 ...

We report a case of right-sided iatrogenic Horner's syndrome developed after surgical treatment for pulmonary hydatid cyst. This occurred in a 10 year old girl who had been diagnosed as having a ruptured lung hydatid cyst on the basis of clinical, radiological, serological, histopathological and perioperative findings. The patient underwent right thoracotomy and the cystotomy-capitonnage for th...

L'hémorragie de la délivrance reste la première cause de mortalité dans la majorité des pays y compris le Maroc. Sa prise en charge doit être multidisciplinaire, rapide, avec mise en 'uvre de moyens médicaux et parfois chirurgicaux pour contrôler l'hémorragie. Les techniques de compression ou de cloisonnement utérins ont été peu évaluées mais diffusées rapidement dans le monde entier vu la faci...

Hydatid cystic disease is still a significant clinical problem in endemic countries. Hydatid cysts are usually located in the liver and lung. The resulting large cysts in the lung are a special clinical entity called giant hydatid cysts. We present a case of this rare entity: An 18-year-old woman presented with three month history of hiccups and progressive dyspnea. Chest X-ray revealed a very ...

In this report, 226 patients with hydatid disease admitted to the Surgical Department of Erciyes University (Kayseri) and Sişli Etfal Hospital (Istanbul) in Turkey between 1978 and 1990 were reviewed retrospectively. 102 patients (45.1%) were male and 124 (54.9%) female. The most frequent symptom was right upper abdominal pain (66%). The most frequent signs were hepatomegaly (43.8%) and palpabl...