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Echogenic forms of hydatid cysts: Sonographic diagnosis
Author(s) -
Garcia Francisco J.,
MartíBonmatí Luis,
Menor Francisco,
Rodriguez Belen,
Ballesta Antonio
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870160505
Subject(s) - echogenicity , medicine , calcification , ultrasound , radiology , cyst , echinococcosis , ultrasonography , hydatid cyst , computed tomography , anatomy , pathology
Of 167 patients with abdominal hydatidosis, 29 showed a total of 36 hydatid cysts in which ultrasound demonstrated an overall echogenic appearance. The following ultrasound characteristics of an abdominal mass suggest the diagnosis of hydatid cyst: round or oval shape, well‐defined borders, partial wall calcification, peripheral cystic structures, internal echogenic linear formations, snowstorm and/or hyperechogenic internal echo pattern, and posterior acoustic enhancement. A comparative study with computed tomography has also been carried out in 10 of these cysts. Pathologic correlation in most cases allows us to postulate that this appearance represents an overmature, probably ruptured, hydatid cyst.