[Course over several decades of echinococcosis with peritoneal and pulmonary spread]

Report on a 67-year-old man with echinococcus-granulosus-cysts in liver, lungs, spleen and mesentery since at least 31 years. In 1969 and 1974 surgical intervention was performed. In 1983 suppurative colliquation and spontaneous depletion by a fistula of a cyst of the liver, output of the cysts of the right lung by coughing. In 1986 spontaneous resorption of a cyst of the left lobe of the liver. In 1987 measurable shrinking of a cyst of the left lower lobe of the lung. Two until today existing cysts (spleen and upper part of the abdomen in the midline) are in supervision by sonography.