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A 10-year-old girl with surgically proven unilocular hydatid cysts within the frontal horn of the right lateral ventricle, in the right orbit and another the left frontal region is reported. The intraventricular cyst was diagnosed on CT examination with intrathecal contrast medium injected via lumbar puncture.
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Diren, H.B., Ozcanli, H., Boluk, M. et al. Unilocular orbital, cerebral and intraventricular hydatid cysts: CT diagnosis. Neuroradiology 35, 149–150 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00593974
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