An unusual location of hydatid disease: an asymptomatic case with rib destruction

Erdal Yekeler,

Erdal Yekeler¹, Metin Akgün²

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, Palandöken State Hospital, Erzurum
²Department of Chest Diseases, Medicine Faculty of Atatürk University, Erzurum

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A 57-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a pleural based lesion which was incidentally detected on a chest radiograph. A chest tomography revealed a mass lesion extending left sixth rib. The mass was removed by a left postero-lateral thoracotomy. Daughter vesicles were seen when the lesion was incised postoperatively. In this article, we presented a rib hydatidosis which is very uncommon asymptomatic presentation of hydatid cyst disease with its surgical management.

Keywords : Asymptomatic; rib destruction; hydatid disease; surgery

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