Preface

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

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

The book is subdivided into five sections and eight chapters:


**II**

**Section 5**

Medical Treatment of Cystic Echinococcosis

Complications of Hepatic Hydatid Disease *by Pedro Pinto, Sergio Gaete and Patricia Vega*

*by Mehmet Mihmanli, Mert Tanal, Emre Bozkurt* 

Utility of ERCP in the Diagnosis and Management of Biliary

The Surgical Management of Hydatid Cyst of the Liver: What is New?

*by Irina Magdalena Dumitru*

*and Onur Guven*

Treatment **77**

**Chapter 6 79**

**Chapter 7 91**

**Chapter 8 99**

5. Treatment

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 echinococcosis.

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, especially Ms Mia Vulovic for her precious collaboration.

Special thanks to Dr Meriem Braiki, pediatric surgeon, for her valuable collaboration as co-editor and her great help in revising the manuscripts.

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 have overlooked.

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.
