Hydatid disease presenting as dense breast implant
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Edwin Woo; Neeta Singh; Christopher Mansbridge; Sarah Glover
- Source
- Journal of Travel Medicine. 28
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Breast Implants
Pulmonary cyst
030231 tropical medicine
Breast Neoplasms
Computed tomography
Disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Echinococcosis
parasitic diseases
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Breast Density
Lung
Breast tissue
biology
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
medicine.anatomical_structure
Echinococcus
Female
Radiology
Implant
business
Mammography
- Language
- ISSN
- 1708-8305
1195-1982
We present an interesting case of a pulmonary cyst, thought from the original radiograph to be a dense breast implant. We also present a computed tomography image of the large cyst and the characteristic histological findings of the cause.