Renal hydatid disease

✍ Scribed by N. I. Ramus; J. P. Mitchell

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 466 KB
• Volume: 61
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800610519

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Despite the well-recognized danger of scolices seeding into the peritoneal cavity or even into the wound as a result of spill occurring during operative removal of a hydatid cyst, the mucosal lining of the bronchial tree appears to resist these scolices which are frequently coughed up when a hydatid of the lung ruptures. Similarly, scolices were seen in large numbers in the urine of a patient whose renal hydatid had ruptured into three calices, and yet there is no evidence of seeding on the urothelium within I5 months of follow-up.