[Advances in liver surgery].

In corroboration of previous research results our own investigations show that advances in liver surgery are achieved above all by early and considerably extended clinical diagnosis as well as by decisively improved surgical technique. Supporting measures such as mebendazole medication in the surgical management of echinococcosis have an important share in successful treatment. However, there is no doubt that, even today, liver surgery is not the routine operation ranking equal with biliary or gastric surgery.