Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

Abstract

ABSTRACT:
Hydatid cyst (HC) disease is zoonotic disease
caused by larvae of Echinococcus granulosus
which is commonly affecting liver and lung or
any organ or tissue in our body .central nervous
system (CNS) can be involved at any place with
or without brain involvement including skull
,orbit , vertebral column and spinal cord .Orbital
infestation is constituting less than 1% of all
hydatid disease cases .There are few reported
cases of orbital HC in the literatures that
presented with acute visual loss and proptosis. In
this article we are reporting a case of intramuscular

orbital HC that presented with sever
and acute visual loss with proptosis following
trivial road traffic acciden