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Cardiac involvement is rare in hydatid disease, but it carries a significant risk of potentially lethal complications. Cardiac hydatid cysts are mostly intramyocardial. Pericardial hydatid cysts without myocardial involvement are much less frequent. Cardiac imaging techniques, particularly two-dimensional echocardiography, are more useful in the detection of cardiac cysts. We present an incidentally detected, asymptomatic, pericardial hydatid cyst.
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Firath, I., Özder, A., İncesoy, N. et al. Asymptomatic pericardial hydatid cyst. International Journal of Angiology 8, 161–164 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01616446
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