Pleural Fluid with Hooklets in a 7-Year-Old Boy with Severe Multisystem Cystic Echinococcosis

Sauteur et al present the case of pleural fluid with hooklets in a 7-year-old boy with severe multisystem cystic echinococcosis. A 7-year-old boy from Macedonia who immigrated to Switzerland 2 years earlier presented to our clinic with a cough (or a week and loss of appetite for months. His medical history was unremarkable, and he was not exposed to animate. Chest X-ray showed opacification of the right hemi-thorax with a MO mm rim of fluid on sonography pointing at a large pleural effuson. A diagnostic pleural puncture (or suspected parapneumonic effusion drained 40 ml of clear fluid.