Solitary abdominal wall hydatid cyst—a rare condition

Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection by a tapeworm of the genus Echinococcus that usually presents in the liver and lungs. Presentation of the disease as a solitary abdominal wall lesion, however, is a rare entity and only nine cases have been reported in the literature thus far. We present the...

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Autores principales: Kofina, Konstantinia, Papatheodorou, Nikolaos, Konomi, Michael, Giannopoulos, Ioannis, Valkanos, Anastasios, Karanikas, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9741521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36518640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac575
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author Kofina, Konstantinia
Papatheodorou, Nikolaos
Konomi, Michael
Giannopoulos, Ioannis
Valkanos, Anastasios
Karanikas, Michael
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description Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection by a tapeworm of the genus Echinococcus that usually presents in the liver and lungs. Presentation of the disease as a solitary abdominal wall lesion, however, is a rare entity and only nine cases have been reported in the literature thus far. We present the case of a 53-year-old Caucasian female presenting with a mass located in the left flank that was proven to be a solitary hydatid cyst intraoperatively.
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spelling pubmed-97415212022-12-13 Solitary abdominal wall hydatid cyst—a rare condition Kofina, Konstantinia Papatheodorou, Nikolaos Konomi, Michael Giannopoulos, Ioannis Valkanos, Anastasios Karanikas, Michael J Surg Case Rep Case Report Hydatid disease is a parasitic infection by a tapeworm of the genus Echinococcus that usually presents in the liver and lungs. Presentation of the disease as a solitary abdominal wall lesion, however, is a rare entity and only nine cases have been reported in the literature thus far. We present the case of a 53-year-old Caucasian female presenting with a mass located in the left flank that was proven to be a solitary hydatid cyst intraoperatively. Oxford University Press 2022-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9741521/ /pubmed/36518640 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac575 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Solitary abdominal wall hydatid cyst—a rare condition
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