[Multifocal hydatid cysts in children]

From 1981 to 1983, 112 children have been operated on for hydatidosis, 26 of them presented multifocal hydatid cysts. In half cases the lung was affected, in association with an abdominal affect. In 6 cases it was a bilateral pulmonary localisation. The check-up is essentially with two exams: thoracal radiology, front and side view; and abdominal echography. The hydatic serology confirms the parasitic origin. 40 surgical operations have been necessary for 21 children carried 171 hydatid cysts. The particular characters of the echinococcosis in the childhood authorized surgical technical which, without being radicals, can avoid the long morbidity of this affection. We have to deplore in the period after operation: a small abundance hemoptysis (4 days after operation), 2 lungs abscess (10 and 12 days in postoperative period), a forgotten cyst on the liver, discovered by echography in the 30 days after surgery.