Open AccessClinical experience of surgical therapy in 207 patients with thoracic hydatidosis over a 12-year-period
Author(s) -
Turgut Işıtmangil,
Saban Sebit,
Habil Tunç,
Rauf Görür,
Oryal Erdik,
Erdoğan Kunter,
Alper Toker,
Kunter Balkanli,
O Y Ozturk
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
schweizerische medizinische wochenschrift
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0036-7672
DOI - 10.4414/smw.2002.10060
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , thoracotomy , enucleation , pneumonectomy , albendazole , cyst , cardiothoracic surgery , lung , median sternotomy
Hydatid disease is the most severe helminthic zoonosis, with a major medical, social, and economic impact in Turkey. The aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively 207 patients diagnosed with hydatid cyst and treated surgically in our department between January 1990 and December 2001.
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