The following case was donated by Drs. Stephanie Slemp, Nicole Hubbard, Morgan McCoy, Ryan Relich, and Bryan Schmitt.
The following liver mass was resected from a 20 year old man. The man had recently immigrated to the U.S. from South America. Below is a cross-section of the lesion. While awaiting the histopathology, what is your differential diagnosis from the gross exam?
6 comments:
Hydatid cyst (echinococcus)?
CP from Vt
Hydatid cyst, probably e granules is given geography and clear separation of cyst and liver
I can only go with the two previous responses.
Florida Fan
Hydatid cyst of liver-Echinococcus sp.(looks like tender coconut:-)
I would add E. histolytica.
BW in Vt
I think to see Ascaris worms, on the top you can distinguish the curl in the tail of a adult male
Hans Naus
P.s. Ent. histolytica is seen as brown pus
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