title: Case report of a primary multiloculate muscular cystic hydatidosis.
abstract: Hydatidosis is a zoonosis caused by the ingestion of Echinococcus granulosus eggs, released though the feces, from infected dogs to humans. Primary localization is mostly hepatic and/or pulmonary, whereas muscular involvement is very rare, even more so in muscular striated tissue. This is the report of a case of a primary intramuscular hydatid cyst in a 79-year-old woman who presented with a 3-year history of a painful lump in her proximal medial left thigh. The authors document the exceptional giant dimensions of the cyst, which have not previously been reported in a case of striated muscular hydatid disease.
authors.affiliation: Orthopaedics Section, Department of Clinical Methodology and Surgical Technique, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. angelanotarnicola@yahoo.it
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Notarnicola
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Moretti
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Panella
authors.forename: Antonio G G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Margari
authors.forename: Antonietta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cimino
authors.forename: Vito
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pesce
authors.forename: Biagio
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moretti
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000469:parasitology; D004285:Dogs; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery / Q000635:transmission / Q000662:veterinary; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009220:Myositis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology / Q000601:surgery; D013848:Thigh; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D015047:Zoonoses