Figure 7. Plain abdominal radiograph in a 45-year-old physician with an isolated Type II/III cyst in the spleen. He presented with an acute abdomen and anaphylactic shock due to direct rupture of the cyst into the peritoneal cavity. A large number of daughter cysts were removed at laparotomy. 3 years later, an abdominal radiograph shows extensive calcification of the residual disseminated daughter cysts.

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