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(a) Chest Radiograph showing unusual shadow in paracardiac region (b) post operative radiograph showing clearance of lesion. (Source: Department of Radiology, NSCBSMC, Meerut)
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His ultrasonography abdomen revealed a hydatid cyst in right lobe of liver and chest radiograph (Fig. 1) revealed an unusual shadow in paracardiac region.
(a) CT abdomen showing lesion in right lobe of liver (b) CT chest showing lesion in left lung (Source: Department of Radiology, NSCBSMC, Meerut)
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CT scan of chest showed a well-defined hypodense lesion of 5.4 x 5.3 cm in superior and posterior basal segment of lower lobe of left lung with peripheral calcification (Fig. 2).
Direct microscopy showed plenty of hooklets, scolices and fragments of cyst wall. (Source: Department of Microbiology, NSCBSMC, Meerut)
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Direct microscopic examination of the cyst content showed plenty of hooklets, scolices and fragments of cyst wall resembling Echinococcus granulosus [Fig. 3].
Histopathological examination showing echinococcal cyst wall (Source: Department of Pathology, NSCBSMC, Meerut)
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Histopathological examination revealed classical echinococcal cyst (Fig. 4).