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E Hamaloglu

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Hydatid cyst of the spleen: treatment options.

Hydatidosis is a highly endemic parasitic disease caused by Echinococcus. The spleen is infrequently involved in hydatid disease. Splenectomy is the conventional treatment, but there are other treatment options as well. In this article, we reviewed the data of 14 patients with splenic hydatidosis operated on during the last 20 years. The spleen was involved in 2.5% of all abdominal hydatidosis cases during this period and was the only location of disease in 7 of the 14 patients. Partial cystectomy and omentopexy was performed on 2 patients, and splenectomy was performed on 12 patients. In 2 patients, percutaneous drainage was the initial choice of treatment but was not successful, and splenectomy was performed eventually. There was no mortality, and the morbidity rate was 28.6%. Although currently splenectomy is the conventional treatment, experience suggests that partial cystectomy and omentopexy should be the procedure of choice for the treatment of splenic hydatidosis.

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Intussusception in adults.

This study is a review of 22 adult intussusceptions from 1983 to 1988 at Ankara Numune Hospital in Turkey. The underlying pathological processes were identified in 20 patients (81%). Of 22 patients, 12 were males (54.5%), and 10 were females (45.6%). Twenty-two patients had documented intussusception: four cases originating in colon and 18 cases originating in the small bowel (81.8%). All of the colonic intussusceptions were associated with primary carcinoma of colon. One of 18 cases of small bowel intussusceptions was malign. Because of these findings we advocate resection in colonic intussusceptions. In the patients with intussusception of small bowel, initial surgical reduction and later limited surgical resection is the preferred treatment. The sites of involvement of intussusception in our patient group were jejunojejunal (5), ileoileal (6), ileocaecal (4), ileocolic (3), colocolic (4). When an intussusception is encountered i adults, an underlying process usually can and should be determined for proper treatment.

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