title: Primary hydatid disease of the chest wall.
abstract: The chest wall is an unusual location for primary echinococcus disease. We report on case of a primary chest wall hydatid cysts, resembling a mass lesion, in a 50-year-old woman who had no prior surgery for hydatid disease before. Chest wall hydatid disease should be considered in the atypical location and differential diagnosis of chest wall masses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Alper
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Findikcioglu
authors.forename: Dalokay
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kilic
authors.forename: Tuba
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Canpolat
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hatipoglu
mesh_terms: D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed