Water-lily sign on MR imaging of primary intramuscular hydatidosis of sartorius muscle.
Primary hydatidosis of muscle is very rare and can cause a variety of diagnostic problems, especially in the absence of typical radiologic findings. This is the report of a case of primary intramuscular hydatid cyst in a 35-year-old woman, who presented with a 1-year history of a painless lump in the distal left thigh. The authors document the pathognomonic water-lily sign that has not previously been reported in a case of intramuscular hydatid disease.
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Department of Radiology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Ankara, Turkey. bcomert@hacettepe.edu.tr
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D000328:Adult; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D013848:Thigh