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Preoperative teleradiography with apicolateral hydatid cyst image.
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Instead, it was a kind of a radiolucent tissue (Figure 1).
Preoperative echocardiography image. Lateral wall hydatid cyst image (arrows).
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Fibrinous pericardial effusion was also noticed within pericardial sac (Figure 2).
Preoperative contrast thorax CT image.
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 Thorough examination of thoracoabdominal computerized tomography revealed 4.5 x 5 cm cystic mass inside heart apex, together with 2.5 cm pericardial effusion (Figure 3).
Image of cardiac cyst after dissection from adherent pericardium and opening of gauze pads with povidone-iodine. Pericardium, myocardium, cuticular membran, germinative, (blue arrow) membrane and daughter vesicles, (black arrow).
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It was also adherent or sticking to pericardium (Figure 4).
Hydatid cyst germinative membrane (right and left arrows), cuticular membrane (lower arrow), and inflammatory tissue rich of eosinophils (around stars) (H&E stain, x100).
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Germinative membrane, cuticular membrane, and eosinophilic inflammation were detected (Figure 5).