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.

Ascites

Accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity.


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22831940
 FEMALE
Ascites as an initial presentation of spontaneously ruptured hydatid cyst.
Turkbeyler IH, Babacan T, Dilli I, Balkan A, Dag MS, Kadayifci A.
S Afr Med J. 2012;102(8):664.
This should be considered in the differential diagnosis of ascites, especially in areas such as Turkey, where hydatid disease in endemic.
22831940
 FEMALE
Ascites as an initial presentation of spontaneously ruptured hydatid cyst.
Turkbeyler IH, Babacan T, Dilli I, Balkan A, Dag MS, Kadayifci A.
S Afr Med J. 2012;102(8):664.
Ascites is rarely seen in the course of hydatid disease, but can result from cyst rupture into the peritoneal cavity.