Surgical treatment of hydatid disease of the liver: an experience from outside the endemic area.

Background/aims: Hydatid disease is quite rare in European countries outside the endemic area around the Mediterranean Sea. Most of the cases observed in Central and Northern Europe occur in emigrants from the endemic area, whose number has been increasing over the last decade. In Switzerland about twenty-five new cases are being diagnosed per year, an incidence of about 0.

Prognosis after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of radiopaque renal calculi: a multivariate analysis.

To obtain a better understanding of the prognostic factors influencing treatment outcome after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), a multivariate logistic analysis of the data from 246 patients has been undertaken. All of the patients were treated with the Dornier lithotriptor HM-3 for radiopaque renal calculi. Treatment success was defined as stone-free within 3 months of one ESWL session and without adjuvant measures after ESWL.