%0 Journal Article
%T "Widespread Hydatidosis of Sacroiliac Bones and Retroperitoneum: A Case Report "
%A "M. Zhianpour
%A R. Basiratnia "
%J Iranian Journal of Radiology
%D 2004
%I Tehran University of Medical Sciences
%X Hydatid disease is one of the oldest diseases known to humankind. In 85-95% of the cases, the liver and/or the lungs are involved and only 5-15% of other organs. The case presented here is a 38-year-old man with hydatid disease of lower lumbar vertebrae, sacrum, lumbosacral spinal canal, and left iliac bone; with extension to retroperitoneum and piriformis, sacrospi-nalis, iliacus, iliopsoas, and quadratus lumbarum muscles; without involvement of liver or lung, as diagnosed by MRI and CT scan and confirmed by surgery.
%K skeletal hydatidosis
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