Contents



Preface

The chapters in this book are written by surgeons, radiologists and parasitologists from different hospitals in several countries as Tunisia, Turkey, Indonesia, Nigeria,

I would like to congratulate all the authors of this book and their teams for the quality of the chapters. I highly recommend this book to all clinicians, radiologists, internists and surgeons involved in the management of patients with

As editor of this book, I would like to acknowledge the effort made by all the contributing authors and the entire editorial team in the publishing of this book,

Special thanks to Dr Meriem Braiki, pediatric surgeon, for her valuable collabora-

Finally, I thank the authors of these excellent articles. They were willing to share their knowledge with a wider audience. I enjoyed working with them, getting to know them and learning from them. I apologize to those friends whose names I may

I would like to dedicate this book to all my colleagues, surgeons, radiologists, internists and parasitologists. I also dedicate it especially to Dr Ridha Ben Haj Hmida, Rached Letaief, Ali Ben Ali, Jaafar Mazhoud, Sabri Youssef, Mohamed Ben Mabrouk, Younes Dahmene, Mohamed Azzaza and Mehdi Ben Haj Hmida. These

surgeons have vast experience in the management of echinococcosis.

We are very pleased to present this book dealing with echinococcosis.

The book is subdivided into five sections and eight chapters:

1. Introductory chapter, overview on Echinococcosis.

especially Ms Mia Vulovic for her precious collaboration.

tion as co-editor and her great help in revising the manuscripts.

Romania, Chile and Iraq.

2. Epidemiology

3. Parasitology

4. Imaging

echinococcosis.

have overlooked.

5. Treatment

*and Onur Guven*
