DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i12.017

Pages: 1060-1062

Hydatidosis is an antropozoonosis caused by the larval form of the cestode of the genus echinococcus granulosus. Despite the endemic state of the disease in some countries of the Mediterranean basin, splenic hydatidosis is rare. It comes in 3rd position after the liver and the lung localization. The treatment is mainly surgical. We report the case of a 21-year-old patient living in a rural area around Marrakech, with no particular medical history, who presented with pain in the left hypochondrium that had developed for seven months revealing a splenic hydatid cyst on ultrasound with positive hydatid serology. The abdominal CT scan showed a hydatid splenic cyst with a membrane detachment occupying almost the entire splenic parenchyma. The patient underwent a resection of the protruding dome, the evolution of which was simple.