Background: The laparoscopic approach for the treatment of hepatic hydatid cysts is increasingly gaining importance. The aim of this study was to report a series of 27 patients with hepatic hydatid cyst managed with laparoscopic partial cystectomy. Methods: A retrospective review of patients treated at a university clinic for hepatic hyd from March 2010 to May 2014 was performed. Operative time...

Hepatic hydatid cysts may cause serious complications. Intraperitoneal rupture of hepatic hydatid cyst is rarely seen and the prognosis can be fatal. By experience, we know that it might be difficult to diagnose an unruptured cyst expulsed into the peritoneal cavity. In this report, we present the case of a 54-year-old man with an intraperitoneal cystic mass of 10 cm of diameter which had extru...

hydatid disease is a parasitic infection caused by echinococcus granulosus (larval form) in humans with lesions most frequently encountered in the liver and lungs. it can rarely involve extra-hepatic organs. it is endemic in some regions of iran. the omental hydatid cyst is a very rare manifestation of the disease. this report presents the interesting case of a very large omental hydatid cyst.

hydatid cyst is a serious parasitic infection in places which people has a close contact with dogs or sheep. they may be found as an incidental findings during routine clinical examination or even followed by radiographic or ultrasonography evaluation. the disease becomes more complicated if rupture of the cysts occurs due to blunt trauma or spontaneously increases of intra-cystic pressure. her...

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...

Rupture of hydatid liver cyst into biliary tree is frequent complications that involve the common hepatic duct, lobar biliary branches, the small intrahepatic bile ducts,but rarely rupture into common bile duct. The rupture of hydatid cyst is serious life threating event. The authors are reporting a case of total rupture of hydatid cyst of liver into common bile duct. A 50-year-old male patient...

echinococcus granulosus is considered the major cause of human hydatid cysts. usually the duration of cyst formation is 10-20 years. this period shortens significantly upon rupture of a primary cyst. the literature describes low incidence of primary involvement of ovary as a site of hydatid cyst formation. our case is the first report on ovarian hydatid cyst in iran. a 60-year-old woman was pre...

CONTEXT Echinococcus multilocularis is the cause of alveolar hydatid disease, which most commonly involves the liver in more than 90% of cases. This disease is endemic in northern Iran. However, there are very few published cases from Iran. In this article, we will review all of the published cases of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis from Iran regarding all aspects, including clinical, paraclini...

BACKGROUND: Cardiac tamponade as the initial manifestation of metastatic cancer is a rare clinical entity. Furthermore, a thoraco-biliary fistula is another rare complication of echinococcosis due to rupture of hydatid cysts located at the upper surface of the liver to the pleural or pericardial cavity. We report a case of non-small cell lung cancer with a coexisting hepatic hydatid cyst presen...

HYPOTHESIS The prediction of an intrabiliary rupture of a hepatic hydatid cyst using associated clinical factors is important for early diagnosis and proper management. DESIGN Case series of patients with hepatic hydatid cysts treated between January 1, 1992, and January 1, 2000, in a single institution. SETTING A tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS The clinical findings in 116 pati...