[Hepatic hydatidosis: old and actual therapeutic strategies]

The authors, reporting on their experience, confirm as the incidence of the hepatic hydatidosis and the complications related to this pathology today are very meaningful. They specify that the objectives to be pursued are: elimination of the parasite, prevention or treatment of the complications, prevention of the development of a new infestation. They dwell therefore upon the various techniques, both conservative and radical, that marked the history of the hepatic hydatidosis surgery, and they conclude affirming that the procedures of eradication of the parasite and the pericystectomy, in particular in laparotomic way, also represents the ideal treatment in consideration of the a little encouraging results of the medical therapy.