An extraordinary rare presentation of liver hydatidosis with hydatid cyst scolices

Spyridon Davakis; Athanasios Syllaios; Eleandros Kyros; Nikolaos Garmpis; Alexandros Charalabopoulos

doi:10.1002/ccr3.3111

An extraordinary rare presentation of liver hydatidosis with hydatid cyst scolices

Clin Case Rep. 2020 Jul 31;8(11):2298-2299. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.3111. eCollection 2020 Nov.

Authors

Spyridon Davakis¹, Athanasios Syllaios¹, Eleandros Kyros¹, Nikolaos Garmpis¹, Alexandros Charalabopoulos^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Laiko General Hospital National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Greece.
² Department of General Surgery Broomfield Hospital Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust Chelmsford UK.

Abstract

The extraordinary finding of scolices with the characteristic hooklets may be found during the microscopic analysis in patients with cystic echinococcosis.

Keywords: hooklets; hydatosis; liver; microscopic examination; scolices.