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VERA CARRASCO, Oscar; PINILLA LIZARRAGA, Heidy  e  SOLIZ HURTADO, Marcelo. QUISTES HIDATÍDICOS PULMONARES GIGANTES: A PROPÓSITO DE TRES CASOS. Cuad. - Hosp. Clín. [online]. 2006, vol.51, n.2, pp. 59-65. ISSN 1652-6776.

The hidatidic cyst is the main lung parasitosis that affects the young and productive population of our region especially. It is produced by the forms larvarias of Echinococcus granulosus that enters to the intestine of the dog. The hepatic hidatidosis is the most frequent localization in this parasitosis, being the lung form the second. This illness has a sanitary, social and economic great interest. The importance in public health is not related alone with the high index of human morbimortalidad, but also with the losses for labor yield, expenses of hospitalization, surgical interventions and inabilities. The knowledge of the vital cycle and growth of the parasite takes to optimize the handling and these patients treatment, avoiding vital complications. Lastly, it is also important the application of strategies for the prevention of this zoonosis, all this directed to avoid the big damages to the patient (commitment of the labor capacity, vital risk) and the community (study costs, lingering hospitalizations and lost days of work). The complementary exams understand the radiological studies and specific inmunoserologic fundamentally. The images are very varied and they correspond to two different situations: the intact cysts and the complicated cysts. The objective of the present article is to present 3 clinical cases of lung hidatidosis with giant cysts that have had important commitment lung and sequels

Palavras-chave : Lung Hidatidosis; Giant Cysts.