title: Percutaneous CT-guided treatment of recurrent spinal cyst hydatid.
abstract: The involvement of spinal column in cyst hydatid disease is rare and hard to     treat. The gold standard treatment is total removal of the cysts without     rupture. However, recurrence after surgery is almost inevitable and reoperations     carries technical difficulties and higher morbidity. We present a 69-year-old     woman with two cystic masses at the T12 level, which compress the spinal cord     causing severe paresis in her left leg. Under local anestesia, the cysts were     aspirated and irrigated with 20% hypertonic saline solution via bilateral T12     transpedicular route. We aimed to report that percutaneous CT guided treatment     should be considered as an alternative therapeutic option in case of recurrent     spinal cyst hydatid.
authors.affiliation: Baskent University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara, Turkey. ozgurhozdemir@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ozgur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozdemir
authors.forename: Tarkan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Calisaneller
authors.forename: Erkan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yildirim
authors.forename: Nur
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Altinors
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004322:Drainage; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010291:Paresis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology / Q000628:therapy; D012008:Recurrence; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000469:parasitology / Q000628:therapy; D013396:Suction; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome