Hydatid Cystic Disease of Lumbar Paraspinal Muscles by Faaiz Ali Shah in BJSTR
Abstract
The larva of the tap worm Echinococcus Granulosus causes
Hydatid Cystic disease in humans which is a common public health
problem in many countries of the Middle east, Mediterranean,
Australia and New Zealand [1,2]. The cyst of the tapworm can be
found anywhere in the body but liver (55 to 70%) and lungs (20 to
30%) are more commonly affected by the tape worm.1 The viscera
of the body like heart, kidneys, spleen and brain and are very rarely
affected by the disease and even rarer are the skeletal muscles
which are affected in only 1 to 4% of the cases [3]. We present a case
report of hydatid disease which involved the paraspinal muscles of
the lumbar back without any involvement of liver or lungs.
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