[Polycystic hydatidosis: casual finding of calcified hydatid cyst simulating mesenteric neoplasm].
A case of abdominal hydatidosis, without hepatic involvement, in a patient from the State of Acre is reported. The hydatid, already in degeneration and partially calcified, was discovered incidentally by a radiologic examination of the vertebral column, carried out for evaluating the state of an intervertebral disk prolapse. Although the images suggested a mesenteric tumor, attached to the intestinal wall, the finding of rostellar hooklets in the dense contents of the cyst, after surgical removal, revealed the parasitic nature of the lesion.
Moraes
Mário A P
MA
Centro de Anatomia Patológica, Hospital Universitário de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brasil.
Sobreira
Maria de Nazareth M
Mde N
Medeiros Filho
Plínio
P
Tavares
Alexandre Cavalca
AC
Gomes
Maria Iolanda
MI
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D004446:Echinococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008643:Mesentery / Q000469:parasitology*; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*