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An Unusual Case of Hydatid Cyst Presenting as Pyopneumothorax

Anand Shweta*, Kumar Vikas and Choudhary Eblow

Published: 05 January, 2024 | Volume 8 - Issue 1 | Pages: 001-002

A 10-year-old male child presented to the Department of Respiratory Medicine in March 2017, with complaints of dyspnea (mMRC grade 1) for last 14 months which aggravated on right lateral position, left-sided chest pain for 1 year and mild fever for 3 months. There was no hemoptysis, wheeze, and expectoration. The patient gave a past history of straw-colored pleural fluid aspiration one year ago which was diagnosed as tubercular hydropneumothorax (Figure 1) in 2016 based on pleural fluid analysis. He was given antitubercular treatment for the effusion. He took ATT for 8 months but with no improvement. 

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