Primary spinal extradural hydatid cyst causing paraplegia

• Main Authors: Jaiswal Sushila (Author), Jaiswal Awadhesh (Author), Jain Manoj (Author), Behari Sanjay (Author), Pandey Rakesh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Spinal hydatid disease is an uncommon cause of spinal cord compression and it constitutes 1% of all cases of hydatid disease. The authors present a case of a 21-year-old female presenting with rapid onset paraplegia caused by pathologically confirmed by extradural spinal hydatid cyst. Pat...