The cystic appearance of both oesophageal duplications and pulmonary hydatid cysts can cause a misdiagnosis very easily due to rarity of cystic oesophageal duplications beside the higher incidence of hydatid cyst, especially in endemic areas. Here we report a 7-year-old girl with an oesophageal duplication cyst on the left side misdiagnosed as a hydatid cyst. The aim of the study is to report r...

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infestation, the pulmonary variant, caused by Echinococcus multilocularis is less common and the extra pulmonary thoracic variant even rare .We report a case of 52 year old female who underwent complete surgical excision of isolated right sided thoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cyst with subcutaneous extension. The postoperative period was uneventful. She was discha...

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...

  Abstract   Hydatid cysts are endemic hooknoses in Iran. It may involve various organs of   body. Liver is involved in 80% and lung in 10- 15%of cases. 25% of pulmonary hydatid   cyst is bilateral. Before any transplantations eradication of infection is necessary.   In a 26-year old man with renal failure referred for kidney transplantation. On   initial preoperative evaluation of this patient...

Hydatid cysts is most often characterized by hepatic and pulmonary involvement, but it also rarely involves other body parts and systems. Axillary involvement by hydatid cysts is considerably rare in countries with endemic hydatid cyst manifestation, and cases from countries like Turkey are still widely reported. A young woman aged 24 years was seen at our clinic for a painful axillary mass. Sh...

Ann Saudi Med 29(1) January-February 2009 www.saudiannals.net 53 Pulmonary aspergillosis frequently complicates existing pulmonary cavity, which is commonly due to tuberculosis.1-6 Pulmonary aspergillosis has also been reported, though rarely, in pulmonary cavities as a consequence of the removal of a hydatid cyst.7-9 We report a case with active pulmonary hydatid disease that was co-infected w...

An enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot for the diagnosis of human hydatid disease was performed, and the different antibody responses were analyzed by a discriminant analysis. This multivariate technique gave us, first, a selection of the most important responses against Echinococcus granulosus infection and, second, a procedure for the classification of patients into two groups: patients ...

Pulmonary embolism due to hydatid cysts is a very rare clinical entity. Hydatid pulmonary embolism can be distinguished from other causes of pulmonary embolism with contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI especially displays the cystic nature of lesions better than CECT. Here we report a 45-year-old male patient with the pulmonary embolism due to r...

Cystic echinococcosis (CE), also known as hydatid disease, is an important zoonotic infection and public health problem in many areas of the world including Iran. A ten-year (1999–2009) retrospective study was carried out to investigate the medical files of the patients who operated on for hepatic and pulmonary cystic echinococcosis in Shohada-Tajrish and Imam Hossein hospitals, Tehran (capital...