Treatment and diagnostic procedures of renal hydatid disease

ABSTRACT

Renal hydatid disease is uncommon and accounts for 2-3% of all reported cases of hydatid disease. The treatment of choice is surgical. Medical therapy is not always satisfactory, and cure depends mostly on removal of all affected tissue. Cystectomy, nephrectomy, or cystectomy with pedicled omentoplasty, especially if the cyst communicates with the renal collecting system, are the treatments of choice. The use of a scoilicidal agent is mandatory during surgery. Mixed echogenecity on ultrasound and multivesicular cyst with mixed density on computed tomography [CT] are most helpful in establishing the diagnosis. We wish to report 10 cases of renal hydatid disease encountered and successfully treated by surgery at King Hussein Medical Center [KHMC]. None of the patients had liver or lung involvement