[Echinococcosis of the lungs]

The echinococcosis is the parasitic infection caused by the larval form of the echinococcus in a human or an animal organism. The infection can take part in any organ or tissue. About 20 percent of the echinococcosis of all locations are situated in the lungs. We present the results of the surgically treated lung echinococcosis. Various surgical methods of treatment were used, from the most economic ones to the most radical ones. In the last 32 years 234 patients were treated of lung echinococcosis. 224 of them were treated surgically, using the standard preoperative proceedings. Surgical methods based on the intraoperative patho-anatomic structure of the hydatid cysts were used with very sufficiently results. We preferred the economic, sparing surgical methods and used more radical ones just in a few cases. Five patients had a letel issue (2.23%), and three patients (1,34%) had a recidive of the lung echinococcosis.