Renal hydatid disease mimicking as renal calculi in a child- A rare presentation

• Main Authors: Meher Kalsi (Author), Ram Mohan Shukla (Author), Shashi Shankar Sharma (Author), Maneesh Kumar Joleya (Author), Ashok Kumar Ladda (Author), Pooja Tiwari (Author), Vinod Raj (Author), B.K. Lahoti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hydatid disease is a common ailment requiring surgical intervention which mostly affects liver [65%] and lungs [25%], but can rarely occur in brain, bones, spleen, muscles and kidneys. In children, however, renal involvement is even rarer, constituting only 1.9% of all cases. One such very rare case...