Intracavitary cardiac hydatid cyst and the wall sign criteria

Fortia, M. El; Bendaoud, M.; Maghur, H; Musa, Abubakar; Ettir, A; Dirar, A; Al-Zwae, Khaled

doi:10.1016/s0929-8266(98)00061-5

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“…The images in these case reports, as well as this report, show that pelvic echinococcosis, like hepatic echinococcosis, has a wide variety of ultrasonographic appearances. Previous reports have shown predominately cystic lesions, 4,8 hypoechoic solid lesions, 5,9 multilocular lesions with a few internal septa, 6 solid lesions, 7 multicystic lesions, 10 and lesions with unusual doublelayered or calcified walls. 5,6,8 None of these reports showed the multiseptate pattern in our patient, which can be classified as type III in the classification system of Gharbi et al 12 and type IIb in the classification system of Caremani et al 13 It is possible that our mass might have contained internal echoes if it had been scanned with a high-frequency endovaginal probe.…”

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confidence: 94%

Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of Pelvic Echinococcosis

Ranzini

Hale

Sonam

et al. 2002

J of Ultrasound Medicine

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confidence: 94%

Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of Pelvic Echinococcosis

Ranzini

Hale

Sonam

et al. 2002

J of Ultrasound Medicine

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“…Isolated hydatid cysts in the heart are uncommon. Single case reports and small series involving Greek and Italian patients with cardiac hydatid disease have been reported (79)(80)(81)(82)(83)(84).…”

Section: Hydatid Disease Of the Heart Caused By Echinococcus Granulosusmentioning

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Parasitic diseases of the heart

Kirchhoff

Weiss²,

Wittner

et al. 2004

Front Biosci

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The following chapter is one of a series of chapters in the volume entitled Infections of the Myocardium appearing in Frontiers in Bioscience. The full table of contents can be found at http://www.bioscience.org/current/special/tanowitz.htm. In this chapter, we review several parasitic infections involving the myocardium and pericardium. The most widely studied parasitic infection affecting the heart is Chagas' disease or American trypanosomiasis. In this chapter we describe issues relating to Chagas' disease not covered in detail in other chapters. African trypanosomiasis may also cause a myocarditis. The protozoan parasite, Entamoeba histolytica rarely causes a pericarditis while Toxoplasma gondii may cause myocarditis, usually in immunocompromised hosts. The larval forms of the tapeworms Echinococcus and Taenia solium may cause space-occupying lesions of the heart. Severe infection with the nematode Trichinella spiralis may cause myocarditis.

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