Hydatid disease is a considerable health problem worldwide. Two case reports of relatively uncommon presentations of the disease are presented.The first case is that of a 25 years old female from region of Afghanistan that borders Pakistan's Baluchistan province. She presented with cough, hemoptysis and left hypochondrium pain due to concurrent involvement of the right lung and the spleen due t...

Echinococcosis is a zoonotic infection in which the liver is the organ most frequently involved, followed by the lung and sometimes the heart, spleen, kidney and brain [1]. Hydatid cyst can be seen in almost every part of the human body [2–5]. Despite the common involvement of the liver in terms of location, only 2 cases of isolated hydatid cyst of the round ligament of the liver have been repo...

Hydatid disease is a worldwide zoonosis produced by the larval stage of the Echinococcus tapeworm. We demonstrate rare locations and unusual complications of this entity during past 6 years. Rare locations during our observation included lumbar spine, sacral spine, spleen, ovary, abdominal wall, diaphragm, pelvis and right kidney. Unusual complications included formation of bronchopulmonary fis...

Presenter: Bahareh Ghane BS | Tehran University of Medical Sciences Background: Hydatid cysts can occur in any organ or soft tissue; however, the most common sites are liver (60% -70%), lungs (30%), and rarely other organs such as spleen, bone, thyroid, pancreas, breast. The patient was a 23-year-old man presenting with abdominal pain, early satiety feeling mass LUQ from 2 months ago. On physic...

Hydatid cyst is a common health problem of world in sheep grazing area. Liver is the most commonly involved organ. Splenic hydatid cyst is uncommon and its isolated involvement is very rare. We are presenting a case of isolated hydatid cyst of spleen in a sixty one year old female patient with complaints of pain in the left hypochondrium, dyspepsia and features of gastritis for the last 1 year....

The hydatid disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus is an endemic parasitic disease affecting several Mediterranean countries. Echinococcal cysts are mostly located in the liver and the lung, but the disease can be detected anywhere in the body. In this study, we present uncommon extrahepatic localizations of primary hydatid disease. Patients who were operated on for hydatid disease or cystic...

Splenic cystic lymphangioma is a very rare condition, and is classified among cystic proliferations of the spleen. It is considered to be the result of a developmental malformation of the lymphatic system and can involve the spleen alone or be a part of multiorgan disease. It is usually seen in children, often found incidentally. We describe a case of cystic lymphangioma of the spleen in an eld...