Peritoneal echinococcosis. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems. Apropos of 34 cases
Moumen, M.; el Alaoui, M.E.; el Mansouri, A.; Mokhtari, M.; el Fares, F.
Chirurgie; Memoires de l'Academie de Chirurgie 117(10): 854-859
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-4001 PMID: 1844418 Document Number: 371865
By the light of retrospective study of a series of 34 cases of peritoneal echinococcosis the authors are reminding epidemiological, etiopathologenical, diagnostic difficulties and treatment of this endemic affection in their country. In their study they noted a frequency of 4.5%. With a female predominance (73.5%), the main age was 47 years 80% of the patients were noted to have a rural origin. The treatment was conservative for the primitive kyste as for the peritoneal locations. The post operative course was uneventful in 76% of cases and complicated in 24% (subphrenic abscess in 5 cases and cholerragy in 2 cases). They deplored 3 deaths the follow up was assured clinically; echographically and biologically; they have reoperated 9 relapses.