Hydatid localization in the major branches of the pulmonary circulation have rarely been reported. The AA. describe the case of a young male patient, previously operated for pulmonary and hepatic hydatidosis, who was unresponsive to medical treatment and died of right heart failure. At necropsy a large hydatid cyst occluding the right proximal branch of the artery was found.
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