Spontaneous expulsion of a pulmonary hydatid cyst through bronchial rupture. (October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pannu, Ashok Kumar; Golla, Rithvik
• Is Part Of: Tropical doctor. Volume 48:Number 4(2018)
• Page Start: 350
• Page End: 352
• Publication Date: 2018-10
• Subjects: Parasitic infection -- Asia -- respiratory tract; Tropical medicine -- Periodicals; Medical care -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing Countries -- Periodicals; Tropical Medicine -- Periodicals; Tropische geneeskunde; 616.9883
• DOI: 10.1177/0049475518789550
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0049-4755

Abstract

The management of a pulmonary echinococcal cyst consists mainly of medical treatment with a scolicidal agent such as albendazole and surgical extirpation. Rarely, a pulmonary cyst may rupture into a bronchus and be spontaneously expelled. This may result in seeding elsewhere in the bronchial tree, or even the alimentary tract, but occasionally, as in our case, may result in a cure.