[Surgical treatment of complications of liver echinococcosis (analysis of 20-year materials].

Analysing our twenty years' materials--394 cases, we found a high percentage of complications--79 percent. Cases of infections suppurations and calcifications due to parasites were most numerous 41 percent. Next, but surgically more interesting were cases of perforations in the abdominal cavity, then penetrations into the bile ducts, the diaphragm and the thorax, and finally cases of the gall bladder affected by the perycyst due to parasites. Solutions of several characteristic cases form every group, are presented in the paper. The conclusion drawn on the basis of our materials is that each case, while respecting the basic principles, requires its own solution.