Case Report
Year: 2019 | Month: December | Volume: 9 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 195-198
Hydatid Cyst in Mesentery: Rare and Unusual Site of Occurrence
Talatnoor Sheikh1, Hoogar M.B2, Shilpi Sahu3, Siddhi Karale4, Ruchi Khadayate4
1 III-year Postgraduate Student, 2Associate Professor, 3Professor and Head, 4 II-year Post-Graduate Student,
Department of Pathology, MGM’s Medical College, Navi Mumbai; Mumbai
Corresponding Author: Hoogar M.B
ABSTRACT
Background: Hydatid disease (HD) is zoonotic and infectious disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Echinococcus, a tapeworm belonging to the family Taeniidae and genus Echinococcus, has four species, the commonest being E. granulosus. E.granulosus frequently causes cystic disease that mainly affects liver and lung but any organ can be involved. Infection of mesentery and peritoneum is very rare and unusual. When it presents as cystic disease of mesentery or peritoneum, it poses diagnostic challenges since the differential diagnosis includes many other varied congenital and malformative cystic conditions.
Case report: The case presented here pertains to a 46-year-old woman who presented with a mass in the abdomen. Diagnostic image screening studies revealed a cystic lesion that extended from epigastric region to sigmoid colon. It did not arise from ovarian or other adnexal structures. Patient had eosinophilic leukocytosis. Surgical excision and subsequent histopathological examination revealed it to be hydatid cyst of mesentery, a rare kind of presentation of Echinococcosis and hence finds its place here as a rare and interesting case of mesenteric cyst.
Key words: Hydatid cyst, Echinococcus, mesenteric cyst, peritoneal cyst, tape worm