Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

PULMONARY HYDATID DISEASE:- ULTRASONOGRAPHIC AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC APPEARANCES

Dr Gaurav Benjwal, Dr Pankaj Mahesh, Dr Surabhi Mehrotra

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;BACKGROUND: Hydatid disease is one of the most geographically widespread zoonoses. Lungs are next most frequent sites involved by echinococcosis followed first by liver. Radiologic approach to the intact, complicated, or ruptured pulmonary hydatid cysts includes a computed tomography (CT) scan following the chest radiograph. Ultrasound (US) is used in clarifying a peripherally located hydatid cyst as extrapleural, pleural, or parenchymal. AIM: &nbsp;The study was done to describe the imaging features of pulmonary hydatid on ultrasonography and computed tomography. &nbsp;METHOD: A total number of seven patients of pulmonary hydatid were evaluated with ultrasonography and computed tomography with screening of the abdomen to look for other sites of hydatid cysts. CONCLUSION: The clinical features of pulmonary hydatid is very non-specific and hence imaging plays a key role in its diagnosis which is very well depicted on ultrasonography and computed tomography and therefore aids in the early diagnosis and treatment of the disease.</p>