PRIMARY PELVIC INVOLVEMENT OF HYDATID DISEASE

MİGRACİ TOSUN, YILDIRIM DURAK, HANDAN ÇELİK, DEVRAN BILDIRCIN, MEHMET BİLGE ÇETİNKAYA, ALİ FAİK YILMAZ

Gynecology Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine - 2011;17(1):59-61

Samsun, Turkey

 

Hydatid disease is caused by larval stage of a parasite named as Echinococcus. To diagnose this condition may be challenging without surgery and postoperative pathological examination due to limited value of serological studies but imaging techniques may give a clue when hydatid disease is suspected and hydatid disease shall be considered for differential diagnosis in pelvic mass. In the present case, we present a 75-year-old postmenopausal woman with pelvic hydatosis.