title: A primary intraocular hydatid cyst.
abstract: Ultrasonography and computerized tomography (CT) of the painful and blind right eye of a 13-year-old girl showed a cystic mass almost filling the vitreous cavity and narrowing the anterior chamber. The histopathologic diagnosis of the enucleated eye was an echinococcus cyst. Abdominal ultrasonography, brain CT and chest X-rays gave no abnormal findings when first examined, nor during the follow-up 18 months after surgery. Indirect hemagglutination test was negative at the last control. The case was accepted as a primary hydatid cyst (echinococcosis) of the eyeball.
authors.affiliation: Ondokuz Mayis University, Department of Ophthalmology, Samsun, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sinav
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Demirci
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sinav
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oge
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sullu
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kandemir
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015353:Eye Enucleation; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000473:pathology