[Acute surgical abdomen produced by an abdominalized infected gigantic hydatid cyst]
Chirurgia (Bucharest, Romania : 1990)
|October 1, 2004
Abstract:
We report the case of a 47 year old female patient, transferred urgently to our clinic with suspicion of a broken liver hydatid cyst, with acute, generalized peritonitis. Intraoperative we found a gigantic liver hydatid cyst, surrounding the liver with a massive abdominal extension till the Douglas's bottom sack, adhesive to the parietal and visceral peritoneum. There are presented particular aspects concerning the uncertainties that happened in positive diagnosis establish, the disease evolution, as well as the difficulties of surgical conduct in this case.
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