Alveolar hydatid disease of the liver: brief review and spectrum of adjacent organ invasion

Australas Radiol. 2007 Aug;51(4):346-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2007.01748.x.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to show the spectrum of adjacent organ invasion and to make a brief review of hepatic alveolar hydatid disease (AHD), using CT and MR imaging. We retrospectively reviewed CT and MR images of three patients with various adjacent organ invasions surgically and histologically proven to be AHD. Local invasion to right kidney and adrenal, right hemidiaphragm and lung were detected in one patient, right adrenal in another patient and gall bladder, duodenum, gastric wall and pancreas invasion in the other. AHD may rarely extend to the gall bladder, stomach, duodenum, pancreas, right adrenal and kidney, diaphragm, pleura and lung. The extension of the disease outside the liver is usually encountered in patients with large, peripherally located masses in the advanced stage of the disease.

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Glands / diagnostic imaging
  • Adrenal Glands / pathology
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Digestive System / diagnostic imaging
  • Digestive System / pathology
  • Echinococcosis, Hepatic / diagnosis
  • Echinococcosis, Hepatic / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney / diagnostic imaging
  • Kidney / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Respiratory System / diagnostic imaging
  • Respiratory System / pathology
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed