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Chest clinic
Images in Thorax
Giant pulmonary hydatid cyst
  1. Chenglin Guo,
  2. Qiang Pu,
  3. Jiandong Mei,
  4. Lunxu Liu
  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
  1. Correspondence to Dr Lunxu Liu, Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Alley, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China; lunxu_liu{at}aliyun.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209456

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    A 34-year-old Tibetan man presented with a 4-month history of progressive chest pain and dyspnoea. On direct questioning, his diet consisted of eating raw beef. On examination, there were no breath sounds auscultated on the right. Chest X-ray and CT revealed a giant cystic lesion occupying the right hemithorax (figure 1). There were no other cysts shown on the brain and abdominal CT scans. The serological haemagglutination test for echinococcosis was positive.

    Figure 1

    (A) Chest X-ray showed a high-density shadow. …

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors CG wrote the manuscript. QP and LL managed the patient. JM prepared the images.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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