Rare clinical case of a parasitic exudative pleurisy with free echinococcal cysts in the pleural cavity
Vol. 13 No. 3 (2025), Surgery, orthopedics, traumatology
Vol. 13 No. 3 (2025)

Rare clinical case of a parasitic exudative pleurisy with free echinococcal cysts in the pleural cavity

Surgery, orthopedics, traumatology
Published 2025-10-14
A. Tebenkov
Санкт-Петербургский научно-исследовательский институт фтизиопульмонологии
E. Markov
Republican Tuberculosis Clinic, Komi Republic, Syktyvkar
A. Avetisyan
St. Petersburg Research Institute of Phtisiopulmanology
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Keywords

echinococcosis
tuberculosis
computer tomography
pleural cavity
thoracotomy
pleurectomy
lung decortication

Abstract

Our team of authors has described a clinical case of exudative pleurisy with a large number of free echinococcal cysts in the pleural exudate which provoked the long course of pleurisy and the differential diagnostics difficulties. Such cases have not been described in medical literature.

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