DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i05.064

Pages: 2118-2120

One of the most important complaints of patients applying to emergency services is acute abdominal pain. Considering that many diseases cause a sudden abdominal pain, it is a difficult and time-consuming process to assess these patients and diagnose them accurately. Hydatid cyst, or echinoccocosis, one of the parasitic diseases, is located mostly in the liver and is asymptomatic in many cases. They are rarely ruptured into the peritoneal cavity due to traumas or spontaneously and this may cause acute abdominal pain. Still more rarely germinative membrane remains intact and appears with a cystic mass in the intra-abdominal or pelvic region. In this study, a case is presented of an acute abdominal pain caused by a giant daughter vesicle which moved to the pelvis due to the spontaneous rupture of hydatid cyst in the liver of a male patient aged 32.