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case_images: Intraoperative view: Outer side of calcified hydatid cyst tightly attached to the liver.
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case_images: Intra-operatively, a calcified primary hydatid cyst of the fundus and body of the gallbladder was found with its pericyst attached to the liver (Figure 1).
case_images: The outer side of the removed cyst together with the gallbladder and a small part of the liver.
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case_images: F2
case_images: On opening the gallbladder, a calcified hydatid cyst (dimensions 7 cm x 5 cm) was found, located in the body and fundus of the gallbladder (Figure 2).
case_images: The inner side of the cyst developed entirely extramucosally.
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case_images: F3
case_images: The cyst had reduced severely the lumen of the gallbladder and had grown entirely submucosally (Figure 3).
case_images: Histopathologic specimen.
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case_images: F4
case_images: The histopathology confirmed the presence of calcified hydatid cyst of the gallbladder (Figure 4).