DOI: 10.21276/sasjs.2019.5.6.1

Pages: 245-250

Hydatid disease in an anthropozoonosis and is caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Humans are accidental intermediate hosts of Ecchinococcus. Liver is the most common in-volved organ (59-75%) followed by the lung (27%), Kidney (03%), bone, (1-4%) and brain (1-2%). Other sites. Such as spleen pancreas, heart and muscles are rarely affected, 16 cases of intra-abdominal hydatid disease were diagnosed and managed surgically in a single rural hospital. Male are affected more than females, ultrasonography is diagnostic and non-radical open surgery is the safe procedure in rural set up