Journal Title: تابستان 1403 Article title: Report of an Axillary Hydatid Cyst along with Suppurative Lymphadenitis
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Article abstract: Hydatid cyst is an endemic disease especially in regions which raise livestock. The tape worm lives in dog’s intestine which accompany livestock and human; and very rarely in wolf and foxes. Upon contamination via the dogs excreta or wool; the larvae enters the gut which serves as intermediate host for the disease. The larvae free scolexes in the gut and enters the portal blood stream. It usually settles in the liver, lung, and brain which get most of the blood, rarely it may reside in other parts of the body. Treatment is by complete excision or aspiration and injection of scolicide and reaspiration (PAIR).
In this article we present a case of axillary hydatid cyst in a 23-year old man, which is very rare and only 16 cases has been reported in medical literature so far; but a combination of axillary hydated cyst along with suppurative lymphadenitis has not been found in literature so far.
