title: [Difficult diagnosis in pulmonary hydatidosis].
abstract: Echinococcosis is a disease caused by a small taenid-tape of Echinococcus granulosus, a parasite that lives in the intestine of canines. Occasionally the intermediate host is the human being and it is located especially in the liver and in the lung having the shape of cysts. The diagnosis is often difficult because of the radiological aspect of the cysts, which are very much alike some tumor. The abstract contains two cases of pulmonary hydatid cyst and its steps towards the final diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie luliu Haţieganu Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Medicină, Disciplina de Pneumologie.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pop
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mureşan
authors.forename: Ruxandra
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Râjnoveanu
authors.forename: Milena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Man
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004445:Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery; D048209:Echinococcus granulosus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome