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¹Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
²Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey An extremely rare case of a calcified cerebral hydatid cyst is presented. The cyst was treated surgically at our department. The only symptom was generalized seizure. The calcified, non-enhancing and well-circumscribed characteristics of the lesion were detected on computed tomography (CT). The patient did not have any evidence of hydatid disease elsewhere in the body. The lesion was removed totally by surgery. The postoperative period was uneventful and seizures were not seen during 2-year follow up. This rare lesion is one of few cases presented in the literature where a complete neuroradiological and neuropathological evaluation was performed. In addition, this is only reported case growing at the surgical area following head trauma. Keywords : Brain, calcified hydatid cyst, computed tomography, head trauma.