title: [Surgical treatment of hydatid liver cysts: 20 more years of experience].
abstract: A series of 232 consecutive patients underwent surgery for hydatid liver disease (age range: 12-85 years) in our Department of General Surgery from July 1979 to December 2002. The study group comprised all the 326 cysts treated; the cysts were solitary in 181 patients and multiple in 51. One hundred and forty-one patients (60.7%) underwent radical procedures (7 major liver resections, 3 wedge resections, 95 total pericystectomies, 36 subtotal pericystectomies) and 91 patients (39.2%) conservative procedures (60 partial pericystectomies, 30 marsupialisations, 1 endoscopic drainage). The morbidity rate was 14.8% with the radical procedures and 34.6% with the conservative procedures; in the former group biliary fistula was observed in 2.8% vs 25.2% in the conservative group. The mortality was almost the same in both groups (2.1%). Local recurrence was observed only with the conservative procedures (2.9%). The radical surgical procedures were associated with better morbidity, hospital stay and local recurrence rate. Partial pericystectomy carried a low risk of local recurrence and permitted suitable treatment. Resection of the salient dome was associated with substantial morbidity and a prolonged hospital stay.
authors.affiliation: Divisione Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale SS. Trinità, Azienda Sanitaria Locale n. 8, Cagliari.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puliga
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sulis
authors.forename: Miriam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pala
authors.forename: Raffaele
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sechi
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pietrangeli
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors