POSSIBILITIES OF MODERN RADIATION METHODS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF LIVER ECHINOCOCCOSIS AND ITS COMPLICATIONS

Аннотация

All 118 patients suffering from liver echinococcosis and its complications underwent comprehensive diagnostics. In each of the 118 cases, the presence of liver echinococcosis and its complications was confirmed using combined ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) methods. The diagnostic algorithms that have been developed make it possible to choose different surgical tactics, taking into account the location, size and connection of echinococcal cysts with the vascular and secretory structures of the liver, the stage of the parasite’s life cycle and the type of complications that have developed. Differentiated surgical tactics depending on the type of echinococcal cysts, their location, number and presence of complications allows the priority use of low-traumatic methods as the final method of treatment or as a stage of preliminary sanitation of a purulent focus in case of endogenous intoxication due to suppuration of cysts and breakthrough into the bile ducts.