title: Endoscopic management of a relapsing hepatic hydatid cyst with intrabiliary rupture: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Hydatid disease, although endemic mostly in sheep-farming countries, remains a public health issue worldwide, involving mainly the liver. Intrabiliary rupture is the most frequent complication of the hepatic hydatid cyst. Endoscopy is advocated, preoperatively, to alleviate obstructive jaundice caused by intracystic materials after a frank rupture and is also a useful and well-established adjunct in locating postoperative biliary fistulas. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography with sphincterotomy has been successful as the sole and definitive means of treatment of intrabiliary ruptured hydatid cysts. A case of an elderly woman with frank rupture is presented, where the rupture was definitively managed endoscopically in conjunction with sphincterotomy to remove the intrabiliary obstructive daughter cysts and to achieve decontamination of the biliary tree. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography provided an excellent diagnostic and therapeutic modality in the present case and, thus, it should be considered as definitive treatment in similar cases especially if surgical risk is anticipated to be high.
authors: First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, Hippocrateion Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece. amanouras@hippocratio.gr
authors: Andreas
authors: A
authors: Manouras
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Genetzakis
authors: Pantelis T
authors: PT
authors: Antonakis
authors: Emmanuel
authors: E
authors: Lagoudianakis
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Pattas
authors: Artemisia
authors: A
authors: Papadima
authors: Panagiotis
authors: P
authors: Giannopoulos
authors: Evangelos
authors: E
authors: Menenakos
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001649:Bile Duct Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D016717:Sphincterotomy, Endoscopic