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.

Pulmonary cyst

A round circumscribed space within a lung that is surrounded by an epithelial or fibrous wall of variable thickness. A cyst usually has a thin and regular wall (less than 2 mm) and contains air, although some may contain fluid.

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PMID (PMCID)
24879163	FEMALE	Adult
	[Pleural complications of pulmonary hydatid disease].
	Daghfous H, Zendah I, Kahloul O, Tritar-Cherif F. Tunis Med. 2014;92(1):6-11.
	Rupture of pulmonary cyst into the pleural cavity is rare, but represents the most serious complication of the hydatid disease.
24879163	FEMALE	Adult
	[Pleural complications of pulmonary hydatid disease].
	Daghfous H, Zendah I, Kahloul O, Tritar-Cherif F. Tunis Med. 2014;92(1):6-11.
	Rupture of a pulmonary cyst into the pleural cavity is rare, but represents the most serious complication of the hydatid disease.
21409346	MALE	Middle Aged
	Accumulation of F-18 FDG in the infected pulmonary cyst in a patient with hydatid disease.
	Ozkan ZG, Turkmen C, Sanli Y, Ozkan B, Tanju S. Ann Nucl Med. 2011;25(6):451-3.
	Accumulation of F-18 FDG in the infected pulmonary cyst in a patient with hydatid disease.
9543300	MALE
	An unusual presentation of secondary pleural hydatidosis.
	Aguilar X, Fernandez-Muixi J, Magarolas R, Sauri A, Vidal F, Richart C. Eur Respir J. 1998;11(1):243-5.
	We report the case of a patient who presented with polycystic secondary pleural hydatidosis 4 yrs after treatment for a pyopneumothorax caused by rupture of a pulmonary cyst near the pleural space.