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Extrapleural extraosseous costal echinococcosis

Department of Radiology, American University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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Primary hydatid cysts arising in the thoracic wall are apparently extremely rare. Bonakdarpour et al. (1973) reported six cases of hydatid disease with rib involvement bringing the total number of cases reported in the western literature under the heading of costal echinococcosis up to 38. His cases included three patients with the extraosseous form of the disease in whom rib erosion was produced by contiguity. Only one of these patients had a primary extrapleural cyst. Similarly in a series of 45 patients with intrathoracic hydatid disease (McPhail and Arora, 1967) there was only one patient with an extrapleural hydatid cyst and he presented with smooth rib erosion thought radiologically to be probably due to tumour.

Received for publication April 1, 1979.