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Hepatic echinococcosis complicated with transphrenic migration and bronchial fistula: CT demonstration
D Grande1, J C Ruiz, E Elizagaray
1Service of Radiology, Hospital Civil de Bilbao, Spain.
Gastrointestinal Radiology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
An unusual case of hepatic hydatidosis complicated by transphrenic migration of the hydatid cyst passing through the right hemidiaphragm, and penetrating the inferior pulmonary lobe causing a bronchial fistula, is presented. The computed tomographic (CT) study permitted the correct preoperative diagnosis.