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Introduction: Hydatid disease is a disease that has been known since antiquity and was described by Hippocrates with the particular term Liver filled with water followed by famous Arabian physician Al-rhazes who wrote on hydatid cyst of liver about 1000 years ago. Hydatid disease commonly known as Cystic Echinococcosis (CE) is a parasitic infestation caused by flatworm Echinococcus granulosus.  Hydatid disease is characterized by cystic lesions occurring in different parts of body most commonly liver (65%), lungs (15%). Unusual sites of involvement include muscles (5%), bones (5%),kidney (3%), spleen (2%), diaphragm (1%), ovary (0.2%).The peritoneal cavity, thyroid, breast, gall bladder, omentum are rarely involved.

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