An extremely large primary omental hydatid cyst: report of a rare case

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection caused by Echinococcus granulosus (larval form) in humans with lesionsmost frequently encountered in the liver and lungs. It can rarely involve extra-hepatic organs. It is endemicin some regions of Iran. The omental hydatid cyst is a very rare manifestation o...

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Autores principales: Aghaei, Arman, Khalaj, Alireza, Divanbeigi, Ashkan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3917491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24791126
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description Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection caused by Echinococcus granulosus (larval form) in humans with lesionsmost frequently encountered in the liver and lungs. It can rarely involve extra-hepatic organs. It is endemicin some regions of Iran. The omental hydatid cyst is a very rare manifestation of the disease. This report presentsthe interesting case of a very large omental hydatid cyst.
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spelling pubmed-39174912014-05-01 An extremely large primary omental hydatid cyst: report of a rare case Aghaei, Arman Khalaj, Alireza Divanbeigi, Ashkan Med J Islam Repub Iran Case Report Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection caused by Echinococcus granulosus (larval form) in humans with lesionsmost frequently encountered in the liver and lungs. It can rarely involve extra-hepatic organs. It is endemicin some regions of Iran. The omental hydatid cyst is a very rare manifestation of the disease. This report presentsthe interesting case of a very large omental hydatid cyst. Iran University of Medical Sciences 2013-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3917491/ /pubmed/24791126 Text en © 2013 Iran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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