Hydatid disease of the first rib causing thoracic outlet syndrome.
OBJECTIVE
To present a case of hydatid disease of the first rib as a rare cause of thoracic outlet syndrome.


METHODS
A 57-year-old female patient who had suffered from pain on the left shoulder radiating to the arm and numbness and weakness on the left arm for 3 months was admitted to our hospital. She had undergone an operation due to a mass lesion of the first rib compressing the thoracic outlet which was detected in the preoperative examinations. During the intraoperative examination it was decided that the lesion was a hydatid cyst and the first rib was totally resected.


CONCLUSIONS
This report shows that hydatid disease should be taken into consideration amongst the tumoral diseases of the first rib as a very rare cause of thoracic outlet syndrome.
Gezer
Suat
S
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ataturk's Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. suatr@hotmail.com
Altinok
Tamer
T
Ağaçkiran
Yetkin
Y
Taştepe
Irfan
I
D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012272:Ribs / Q000473:pathology*; D013901:Thoracic Outlet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology