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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;23:258
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL

Letter to the Editor

Reply to Purohit

Atilla Erolu^*, Can Kürkçüolu, Nurettin Karaolanolu

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey

Received 9 November 2002; accepted 13 November 2002.

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +90-442-3166333; fax: +90-442-3166340
e-mail: atilaeroglu@hotmail.com

Key Words: Mediastinal hydatid cyst • Mediastinal cyst • Surgery • Mediastinal diagnosis • Complications

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We congratulate Dr Manoj Purohit on his case and we appreciate his interest in our article.

Hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease frequently seen in sheep and cattle raising countries with poor sanitary conditions. The disease is encountered endemically in our region [1,2]. Primary hydatid cyst of the mediastinum is extremely rare. In our clinic 427 patients with thoracic hydatid disease were treated surgically . . . [Full Text of this Article]