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Figure 25a. Polycystic echinococcosis of the chest wall from E vogeli in a 13-year-old boy. (a) Chest CT scan shows cystic thickening of the pleura with chest wall involvement. (b) Photograph of the surgically resected gross specimen demonstrates osseous expansion secondary to rib invasion (scale is in centimeters). Histologic analysis revealed E vogeli. (Case courtesy of Humberto Varón, MD, Fundación Cardioinfantil, Bogotá, Colombia, and Susana Onatra, MD, Hospital de la Misericordia, Bogotá, Colombia.)
