Primary Renal Hydatid Cyst: Mis-Interpretation as a Renal Malignancy
- Authors
- Choi, Hoon; Park, Jae Young; Kim, Jae-Heon; Moon, Du Geon; Lee, Jeong-Gu; Bae, Jae Hyun
- Issue Date
- 6월-2014
- Publisher
- KOREAN SOC PARASITOLOGY, SEOUL NATL UNIV COLL MEDI
- Keywords
- Echinococcosis; kidney; nephrectomy
- Citation
- KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY, v.52, no.3, pp.295 - 298
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY
- Volume
- 52
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 295
- End Page
- 298
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/98364
- DOI
- 10.3347/kjp.2014.52.3.295
- ISSN
- 0023-4001
- Abstract
- Primary renal echinococcosis, a rare disease involving the kidney, accounts for 2-3% of human echinococcosis. A 64-year-old female patient from Uzbekistan presented with complaints of left flank pain. A CT scan revealed a cystic mass in the upper to midpole of the left kidney. We regarded this lesion as a renal malignancy and hand-assisted laparoscopic radical nephrectomy was performed to remove the renal mass. The mass consisted of a large unilocular cyst and multiple smaller cysts without any grossly visible renal tissue. The final pathologic diagnosis was a renal hydatid cyst. For patients from endemic areas, hydatid cyst should be included in the differential diagnosis. Here, we present a case of renal hydatid cyst in a female patient who relocated from Uzbekistan to Korea.
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