[Lasers and plasma scalpel in the surgery of hepatic echinococcosis]

A plasma surgical device and a CO2-laser device were used in operative treatment of 46 patients with hydatid disease of the liver; in 25 in the patients these measures were combined with exposure to low-energy helium-neon laser radiation. The patients' condition improved more rapidly, the frequency of postoperative complications reduced, the term of postoperative hospital stay of the patients decreased. The fibrous capsule was studied morphologically before and after manipulations with the laser and plasma scalpel.