(1) Department of Gastroenterology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ibn’i Sina Hospital, Sıhhıye, Ankara, 06100, Turkey;(2) Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Sivas Military Hospital, Sivas, Turkey
Abstract:
Renal hydatid disease is an uncommon benign parasitic infestation compared to liver hydatid disease. Although the treatment of hydatid cysts depends on surgery which is related with high morbidity and an overall local recurrence rates, the following case reports describing two patients with renal hydatid cysts were successfully treated with this new percutaneous method.