[
    {
        "id": "osp-10305",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Mediastinal Hydatidosis with an Unusual Presentation",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Dantis",
                "given": "Klein"
            },
            {
                "family": "Gupta",
                "given": "Nilesh"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/mediastinal-hydatidosis-with-an-unusual-presentation",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2025
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal",
        "volume": "22",
        "issue": "2",
        "page": "300-303",
        "DOI": "10.18295/squmj.4.2021.072",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2075-051X",
        "abstract": "Hydatidosis is a common zoonotic disease with a high prevalence in developing countries. While a solitary cyst with unilateral lung involvement is common, bilateral involvement and multiple cysts are rare, only seen in 20% and 30% of the cases, respectively. Likewise, extensive involvement of extrapulmonary tissues and mediastinum is rare. We report an unusual case of mediastinal hydatidosis mimicking an intrathoracic malignancy in a 24-year-old female patient. She presented in the year 2020 with a history of left-sided chest pain and heaviness in the left hemithorax for a period of two months. Diffuse, multiple fluid-filled cystic lesions with internal echoes throughout the mediastinum, lung, pericardium, diaphragm and chest wall were observed in contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the thorax. An incidental cystic lesion in the liver was also noted. Since serology for echinococcosis was negative, a differential diagnosis of intrathoracic malignancy was considered. However, intraoperative and histopathologic findings were suggestive of hydatidosis."
    }
]