Table 3. Surgery and adjunct benzimidazole treatment in 420 spinal CE cases.

Surgery & adjunct benzimidazole treatment*	No. of cases	Notes
Adjunct medical treatment mentioned:
Surgery+benzimidazole treatment	151	median time of treatment [n = 106]:
		6 months (3 weeks - indefinite) dosages:
		albendazole: 10–15 mg/kg/d
		mebendazole: 40–60 mg/kg/d
Surgery+benzimidazole+praziquantel	12	Lam 1997 (1 case) [59]; Keller 1997 (1 case) [35]; El-On 2003 (1 case) [48]; Hamdan 2012 (9 cases) [38]
Surgery without adjunct medical treatment	2	Pandey 1997 (unruptured resection of a single cyst from the sacral spinal canal) [89]; Hamdan 2000 (total excision of a thoracic dumbbell hydatid cyst) [88]
No adjunct medical treatment mentioned	174
Published before the availability of benzimidazoles	81

^*albendazole or mebendazole.