A primary intraocular hydatid cyst

Abstract

Abstract Ultrasonography and computerized tomography (CT) of the painful and blind right eye of a 13?year?old girl showed a cystic mass almost filling the vitreous cavity and narrowing the anterior chamber. The histopathologic diagnosis of the enucleated eye was an echinococcus cyst. Abdominal ultrasonography, brain CT and chest X?rays gave no abnormal findings when first examined, nor during the follow?up 18 months after surgery. Indirect hemagglutination test was negative at the last control. The case was accepted as a primary hydatid cyst (echinococcosis) of the eyeball. 1991 Institution Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica