Surgery, percutaneous radiological intervention and benzimidazole treatment in childhood hydatid cysts

ABSTRACT Surgery, Percutaneous Radiological Intervention and Benzimidazole Treatment in Childhood Hydatid Cysts Aim: Investigation of the effectiveness of surgery, percutaneous radiological intervention and benzimidazole treatment for hydatid cyst in children. Material and method: Between June 2002 and June 2016, patient file of 91 children, who were treated for cyst hydatid disease, were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were evaluated in terms of application complaints, physical examination findings, diagnostic methods, location, type, size and number of cysts, treatment methods, factors affecting treatment, follow up times, bronchial-bile fistulas, cyst rupture, complications and their management. Each organ and organ unrelated settlements were considered as a region and compared accordingly. All analyses were performed using IBM SPSS StatisticsVersion 20.0 statistical software package. Results: The most common complaint was abdominal pain. There were pathologic findings in 28 of 71 patients with liver cysts and 25 of 33 patients with lung cysts. Chest X-ray, tomography and magnetic resonance imaging were used in the diagnosis. Serology was positive in 61/91 patients. Histopathologic examination was performed in 75 patients. The most frequent involvement was seen in the liver and the cyst type was Type 1 (49/71 patients). There was 115 organ-region involvement in 91 patients. The mean diameter of the cysts was 71.66 ± 35.79 mm. Surgical treatment was applied in 59 regions, albendazole treatment in 41 regions and percutaneous treatment in 14 regions. Surgery was successful in 56 of 59 regions. Albendazole treatment was successful in 27 of 41 regions. Percutaneous radiological intervention was successful in 10 of 14 regions. Albendazole prophylaxis was applied to 29/29 patients in liver surgery, 19/21 patients in pulmonary surgery and 11/14 patients in percutaneous treatment. Conservative method (52/59) was used most commonly in surgery. Albendazole was more successful in small cysts. 19/23 of surgically treated lung cysts were associated with bronchi. In liver, 13/15 of bile-related cysts were bigger than 75 mm in diameter. Rupture was present in 12 of 33 lung cysts and 3 of 71 liver cyst patients. Follow-up was performed in case of air leak during postoperative period. When there is persistent external biliary fistula; endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, sphincterotomy, biliary stent and surgery were performed. The mean follow-up period was 40 ± 28 months. Conclusion: Surgery is still the most effective and most commonly used treatment method for cyst hydatid disease. In appropriate cases albendazole or percutaneous treatment are also effective. Other prospective studies are needed to determine the most appropriate treatment. Key Words: Albendazole, Child, Cyst Hydatid, Percutaneous Radiological Intervention, Surgery