DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i02.022

Pages: 411-414

Pulmonary hydatid disease with Echinococcus granulosus is rare. A 14 year old boy presented to our institute with left sided chest pain, mucopurulent productive cough, fever and breathlessness. Chest x-ray and computed tomography scan revealed unilateral multiple giant cysts suggestive of hydatid cysts. With left thoracotomy both the cysts were removed and no daughter cysts were found. Histopathological examinations revealed the presence of hydatid cysts in left lung with no daughter cysts. To best of our knowledge this is the first report of unilateral multiple hydatid cysts.