DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2014.v02i04.011

Pages: 1224-1231

The hydatid cyst is a cosmopolitan parasitic infection that constitutes a problem of the public health in the zones of raising of the developing countries. We return the result of a retrospective survey of 64 cases of unaccustomed localizations of hydatid cysts collected in the general surgery service of the Avicenne military hospital on one period of 17years. The middle age of our patients is of 32years with extremes going from 9 at 66 years. The clinical symptom depended on the seat of the hydatid cyst and the medical imagery permitted to put the diagnosis in the majority of the cases. All patients have been operated and the operative gesture was the most conservative possible and it varied according to the seat and the character of the lesion. The operative mortality is hopeless and the morbidity is at the surroundings of 20%.The human Hydatid disease provoked by the larval shape of a tapeworm of the dog: the echinococcus granulosis. It is an anthropozoonose that rages in several countries from the world to the endemic state. The localizations of predilection are the liver and the lungs of which they represent 85% of the cases; but in practice all organ can be reached. We returned in this survey 64 cases of rare and unaccustomed localizations of hydatid cyst. In conclusion, the hydatid cyst constitutes a real public health problem. It is always necessary to think of it especially among subjects living in a country to elevated endemic and to ask for the necessary complementary exams to put the diagnosis and to avoid therapeutic mistakes. The eradication of this affection rests on the prophylaxis.