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  • Title: Ruptured hydatid cyst in the right thorax: differential diagnosis to pleural empyema.
    Author: Pfefferkorn U, Viehl CT, Barras JP.
    Journal: Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 2005 Aug; 53(4):250-1. PubMed ID: 16037874.
    Abstract:
    We present a case of a hydatid cyst (Echinococcus granulosus) rupturing into the right pleural cavity. Clinical and radiological findings were consistent with a pleural effusion caused by pneumonia and led primarily to a wrong diagnosis. Pleural fluid analysis was suspicious for parapneumonic pleural empyema. After thoracoscopy led to the correct diagnosis a combined surgical and chemotherapy approach achieved complete remission.
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