A 59-year-old woman presented with weight loss and left hypochondrial discomfort that had been present for 2 weeks. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a 12cm×11cm lobulated nonenhancing cystic lesion with intrinsic heterogeneous hyperdense areas (●" Fig.1) and peripheral wall calcification (●" Fig.1b). A provisional diagnosis of cystic neoplasm of the tail of the pancreas was made and ...

INTRODUCTION Spontaneous intraperitoneal rupture with biliary peritonitis in a case of hepatic hydatid cyst is extremely rare but serious complication. It is a surgical emergency with high morbidity and mortality rates. Very few cases have been reported in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION We report an unusual case of a biliary peritonitis due to spontaneous rupture of hepatic hydatid cyst in...

An antigen of high sensitivity and 97.5% specificity prepared from hydatid cyst fluid was used in an ELISA test for a sero-epidemiological survey in areas of Basra, Iraq. The calculated predictive values for positive and negative cases were 3.5% and 96.4% respectively.

A 9-year old girl came to the medicine outpatient department (OPD) with a history suggestive of upper respiratory tract infection. No improvement was seen even after 2 weeks of treatment and the patient was admitted. Routine chest X-ray revealed dense homogenous opacity involving the right lower zone with obliteration of costophrenic angle. CT scan showed thick walled cystic lesion occupying th...

Disseminated peritoneal hydatidosis is rare. Infrequently hydatid cysts can rupture into adjacent organs. We report a case of secondarily disseminated peritoneal hydatidosis with rupture into the gut presenting as hydatidorrhoea. A 26-year-old man presented with passage of white ‘grape’–like structures with stool. Ultrasonography showed disseminated hydatidosis. Magnetic resonance imaging furth...

Hydatid disease (HD) is caused by Echinococcus Granulosus (EG), which is a larva endemic in many undeveloped areas. The most common target is the liver (59%-75%). The retroperitoneal space is considered as a rare localization. We report an uncommon case of HD located in the adrenal gland space. PRESENTATION OF CASE This is a 78-year-old Moroccan woman, with right flank pain for eight months p...

AIM To describe imaging findings of cerebral hydatid cysts on computed tomography of brain. MATERIAL AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed CT scans of brain in 5 patients with pathologically confirmed hydatid cysts in cerebral hemispheres. The patients were scanned either on a spiral (single slice) CT or on multidetector-row CT before and after intravenous injection of iodinated contrast ma...