Anterior abdominal wall hydatid cyst: An unusual presentation

Review of Cystic Echinococcosis in Nigeria: A Story of Neglect

“…On further examination of rural health centers and some rural-and urban-located hospitals, it was observed that medical personnel in these institutions lacked requisite knowledge of the disease which might have resulted in misdiagnoses [61]. However, in recent times, two cases have been reported and include a musculoskeletal involvement with HIV coinfection in a patient admitted to The University of Jos Teaching Hospital [63], and an orbital echinococcosis manifested in protrusion of the eye and poor vision in The University College Hospital, Ibadan [35]. In the latter case, the patient had an existing record of being managed for 22 years in the teaching hospital with clinical history of painless protrusion of an eye and was treated for non-specific orbital inflammatory disease until further histopathological examination confirmed the presence of a cyst with a laminated and a germinal layer.…”

“…While the challenge of microscopy is in its inappropriateness for investigating intermediate hosts, age of livestock, early infection, and variation in cyst development in intermediate hosts [38,41,71] may fraught the effort of postmortem approach (the gold standard). Only recently, surveys have sparingly employed ELISA [5,46,58,67], sonography, and histopathology techniques [35,63]. Following WHO publication of Standardized classification of ultrasound images of CE, the use of sonography in combination with differential diagnosis has been advocated as a useful tool in detecting different presentation of CE infection in humans especially among population at risk [82].…”

Abdominal wall Hydatid cyst: A review a literature with a case report

“…Primary HC of abdominal wall musculature is a very rare disease, up to date; only 6 cases have been reported. Table 1 shows the literature review of the reported cases of abdominal wall HC [2], [3], [15], [16], [17], [18]. Several pathways have been suggested to explain extra-hepatic-extra-pulmonary HC.…”

Abdominal Wall Hydatid Cyst: Case Report and Review of Literature

“…Solitary abdominal parietal wall hydatid is a rare finding with only 5 cases reported it is interesting that all five cases reported have hydatid cyst presenting in right iliac region or right paraumbilical region [13–17]. …”