Author(s)

Riyaz Ahmad Sheikh, Rayees Ahmad Dar, Sabiya Hamid Wani, Mushtaq Ahmad Gagloo, Suhail Farooq Mir, Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Irfan Jan Khan

Department of General Surgery, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, India.
Department of General Surgery, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, India; 2Department of Surgery, Govt. Medical College, Srinagar, India..
Department of Surgery, Govt. Medical College, Srinagar, India.

Psoas muscle is a rare location for hydatid disease. Here we present a case of infected hydatid cyst left psoas muscle presenting as left flank pain, fever, local flank tenderness, and raised blood counts. Preoperative diagnoses was made by Ultrasonography (USG) and Computed Tomography (CT) abdomen, although serology for hydatid disease was negative.

Hydatid Cyst; Psoas Muscle; Hydronephrosis

R. Ahmad Sheikh, R. Ahmad Dar, S. Hamid Wani, M. Ahmad Gagloo, S. Farooq Mir, G. Ahmad Bhat and I. Jan Khan, "Psoas Muscle Hydatid Cyst Causing Ureteric Compression and Hydronephrosis," International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 3 No. 4, 2012, pp. 300-301. doi: 10.4236/ijcm.2012.34058.