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Case Reports
. 2019 Mar 29;2019(3):omz011.
doi: 10.1093/omcr/omz011. eCollection 2019 Mar.

Renal hydatid cyst; a rare infectious disease

Hafezi Ahmadi Mohammad Reza  1   2 , Gheitasi Rreza  3 , Barati Nastaran  4 , MotavalliHaghi Mousa  5
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Case Reports

Renal hydatid cyst; a rare infectious disease

Hafezi Ahmadi Mohammad Reza et al. Oxf Med Case Reports. .

Abstract

Hydatid cyst is one of the most important zoonotic diseases that is caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Infection is transferred through the oral-fecal pathway by eggs of the parasite and more by eating vegetables and food contaminated with dog stool containing eggs of the parasite. Hydatid cyst can be made in liver, lung and rarely in heart, breast, thyroid, soft tissue of neck and kidney. Hydatid cyst of the kidney is a rare disease which may have no symptoms for years. In this case report, the patient has had a typical cyst in the left kidney for years that it seems to be silent for long time in a woman with ambiguous left flank pain whom went to a physician, and after complementary examinations, finally a typical hydatid cyst was diagnosed with the size of 93 × 120 mm in left kidney.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
CT scan for kidneys. Right kidney with a normal dimension of 23×121 mm and without stone or obstruction. Left kidney with a dimension of 18×165 mm and the existence of a typical cyst with a dimension of 93×120 mm.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Tissue section and protoscoleces of hydatid cyst (×1000 magnification)
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