[Surgical treatment of hydatid liver cysts: 20 more years of experience].

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.