[Hydatid liver disease revealed by surgical acute abdominal syndrome].
Hepatic hydatid disease is an uncommon surgical emergency. We report an observation and its diagnosis and treatment.


METHODS
An algerian child consulted in emergency unit for appendicitis syndrome. The surgeon discovered an opened hydatid liver cyst. He performed a cystectomy associated with post-operative chemotherapy.


CONCLUSIONS
Hepatic hydatid disease is frequent in endemic zone. If not complicated, it is often revealed by hepatomegaly. The diagnosis is radiological and mainly serological. Management is medicosurgical.


CONCLUSIONS
Prognosis depends on early surgical management. Long-time serological and echographic follow-up is required.
Durif
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Service de réanimation infantile, centre hospitalier Sud-Réunion, BP 350, 97448 Saint-Pierre cedex, France. sylvie.durif@wanadoo.fr
Marinkovic
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Febvre
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Raffoul
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D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis