Case report: Percutaneous treatment of multiple honeycomb-like liver hydatid cysts (type III CE2, according to WHO classification)

doi:10.4103/0971-3026.95399


INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY


Year : 2012 \| Volume : 22 \| Issue : 1 \| Page : 23-26

Case report: Percutaneous treatment of multiple honeycomb-like liver hydatid cysts (type III CE2, according to WHO classification) Mario Corona¹, Alessandro Cannavale¹, Antonio Bruni¹, Emanuele Boatta¹, Massimiliano Allegritti¹, Pierleone Lucatelli¹, Fabrizio Fanelli¹, Armando Pucci¹, Carolina Paciotti², Filippo Maria Salvatori¹ ¹ Department of Radiology, Vascular and Interventional Radiology Unit, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy ² Department of Surgical Sciences, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy Correspondence Address: Alessandro Cannavale Department of Radiological Sciences, University of Rome "Sapienza," 324 Viale Regina Elena, 00161 Rome Italy DOI: 10.4103/0971-3026.95399

Percutaneous treatment has been developing as a reliable and effective alternative to surgery in the treatment of liver hydatid cysts. However, percutaneous treatment is strongly recommended only for some types of hydatid cysts (types I and II). We report a patient with type III (CE2, according to the WHO classification) multiple liver hydatid cysts treated with the PAIR (puncture-aspiration-injection-reaspiration) technique. The patient developed a secondary biliary ﬁstula, which ultimately healed.



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