[Some interesting cases of pulmonary echinococcosis].

The authors had the opportunity in the interim of the past fifteen years to treat at the hospital in Zadar 277 patients suffering from hydatid disease of different body organs. The most frequently affected was the liver--56.3%, followed by the lungs--24.

[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.