title: Liver hydatid cyst leading to bilateral pulmonary artery embolism and bilateral multiple pulmonar echinococcosis via inferior vena cava: report of a case.
abstract: Hydatid disease (HD) is a worldwide parasitic disease. Echinococcosis may involve many organs but affect most commonly liver and lungs. The location of echinococcal cysts inside pulmonary artery is extremely rare. Radiologic findings range from purely cystic lesions to a completely solid appearance. Hydatid cysts (HC) can be solitary or multiple and varies size. Pulmonary artery embolism of HC can be symptomatic or asymptomatic. When symptomatic, we see the chest pain, dyspnea, cough, hemoptysis and sometimes acute cor pulmonale or sudden death secondary to massive giant pulmonary artery embolism of HC.
authors: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey. hanbayar67@gmail.com
authors: Hanifi
authors: H
authors: Bayaroğullari
authors: Ramazan
authors: R
authors: Davran
authors: Yeliz
authors: Y
authors: Cavuş
authors: Tülin Durgun
authors: TD
authors: Yetim
authors: Ömer
authors: Ö
authors: Evirgen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004445:Echinococcosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000469:parasitology*