Pulmonary Hydatidosis - An Abandoned Surgical Approach.

ABSTRACT

Over the years, hydatidosis as a medical-surgical problem, has been researched by many surgeons, trying to find an optimal treatment method that produces as few as possible lung parenchyma lesions and that has as many benefits as possible for the patient. In this article, the authors are bringing to attention, an abandoned surgical method due to its possible complications but which has adapted perfectly to the case describe bellow. We present the case of a 59-year-old patient, with no significant personal pathological history for the underlying disease, who presented with minimal nonspecific symptomatology and with whom the surgical treatment performed was successful practicing the Perez-Fontana technique.