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[Polycystic hydatidosis: casual finding of calcified hydatid cyst simulating mesenteric neoplasm]
Mário A P Moraes1, Maria de Nazareth M Sobreira, Plínio Medeiros Filho
1Centro de Anatomia Patológica, Hospital Universitário de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brasil.
Abstract:
A case of abdominal hydatidosis, without hepatic involvement, in a patient from the State of Acre is reported. The hydatid, already in degeneration and partially calcified, was discovered incidentally by a radiologic examination of the vertebral column, carried out for evaluating the state of an intervertebral disk prolapse. Although the images suggested a mesenteric tumor, attached to the intestinal wall, the finding of rostellar hooklets in the dense contents of the cyst, after surgical removal, revealed the parasitic nature of the lesion.
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