Cystic echinococcosis

Hydatidosis or cyst hydatic disease is a cosmopolitan larval cestodosis caused principally by the <i>Echinococcus granulosus</i> tapeworm, the adult form of which parasitises the intestine of dogs. Hydatidosis generally affects large domestic herbivores; humans are dead-end hosts, infected through contact with herding dogs or through ingestion of food contaminated with canine excrement.

Pectus carinatum

A deformity of the chest caused by overgrowth of the ribs and characterized by protrusion of the sternum.

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PMID (PMCID)
12425511	FEMALE	Child
	Giant intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cyst manifested as unilateral pectus carinatum.
	Nazaroglu H, Balci A, Bukte Y, Simsek M. South Med J. 2002;95(10):1207-8.
	This case of giant intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cyst manifested as unilateral pectus carinatum serves to illustrate that hydatid disease can produce various symptoms and that it may also exist in locations apart from lung and liver.