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case_images: Preoperative teleradiography with apicolateral hydatid cyst image.
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case_images: Instead, it was a kind of a radiolucent tissue (Figure 1).
case_images: Preoperative echocardiography image. Lateral wall hydatid cyst image (arrows).
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case_images: Fibrinous pericardial effusion was also noticed within pericardial sac (Figure 2).
case_images: Preoperative contrast thorax CT image.
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case_images:  Thorough examination of thoracoabdominal computerized tomography revealed 4.5 x 5 cm cystic mass inside heart apex, together with 2.5 cm pericardial effusion (Figure 3).
case_images: Image of cardiac cyst after dissection from adherent pericardium and opening of gauze pads with povidone-iodine. Pericardium, myocardium, cuticular membran, germinative, (blue arrow) membrane and daughter vesicles, (black arrow).
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case_images: It was also adherent or sticking to pericardium (Figure 4).
case_images: Hydatid cyst germinative membrane (right and left arrows), cuticular membrane (lower arrow), and inflammatory tissue rich of eosinophils (around stars) (H&E stain, x100).
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case_images: Germinative membrane, cuticular membrane, and eosinophilic inflammation were detected (Figure 5).