Cortés CAE, Martínez HN, Parraguirre MS

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 42-45
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ABSTRACT

The Echinococcosis, zoonosis accidently transmited to the man it’s described since the Hipocrates and Galeno epoch, occurs frequently in continent that has domesticated animals, particularly Australia, New Zealand, Africa and the Mediterranean Countries. In the American Continent is Alaska the endemic zone with a infestation in dogs about of 22%, has been detected in Mexico in pigs, mainly by the Echinococcus granulosus. In the human the frequently localizations are liver (60%) and lung (30%). We report a case of 34 year-old women that is from Oaxaca Mexico, the one in her childhood live together with sheeps, she presented intermittent jaundice during four years. The ultrasound revealed a hydatid cyst at the liver, computed tomographic scans showed a solitary cyst in the liver. Casoni’s test was not practice. The patient underwent laparotomy for done fine needle aspiration biopsy at the cyst for cytologic examination and resection of the cyst for histopathologic examination.
The cytologic smears from centrifuged sediment showed the scolices of echinococcus and microscopically the wall was composed by adventitious membrane, germinal layer and scolices. On reviewing the literature the Hydatid Disease is less frequent in Mexico, however, the ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy on can confirming diagnosis without complications.

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