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Mir Yasir1, Jaswinder Kaur1, Aiffa Aiman1
1Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Kashmir 190011, India.
JPRAS Open
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Abstract:
Hydatid disease of skeletal muscle is a rare entity. Liver followed by lung are the most common sites of hydatid cyst. Incidence of unusual sites which include spleen, kidney, mesentry, ovary, brain, skeletal system is 7,8 %. Skeletal muscle has the lowest incidence of primary hydatid among the unusual sites. Here we report a young female with rare primary hydatid disease of left posterior thigh extending into popliteal fossa.

