Can Orbital Hydatid Cyst Presents With Acute Visual Loss?Case Report and Literature Review

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Hydatid cyst (HC) disease is zoonotic diseasecaused by larvae of Echinococcus granulosuswhich is commonly affecting liver and lung orany organ or tissue in our body .central nervoussystem (CNS) can be involved at any place withor without brain involvement including skull,orbit , vertebral column and spinal cord .Orbitalinfestation is constituting less than 1% of allhydatid disease cases .There are few reportedcases of orbital HC in the literatures thatpresented with acute visual loss and proptosis. Inthis article we are reporting a case of intramuscularorbital HC that presented with severand acute visual loss with proptosis followingtrivial road traffic acciden