Table 1.

Summary of patient demographic and clinical information

Demographic and clinical details
Sex	M	12
	F	2
Age (years)	Range; median value	28–71; 44.5
Country of birth	Italy	7
	Other countries*	7
No. of patients with extrahepatic (peritoneal and splenic) cysts	1
No. of patients with multiple hepatic cysts	4
Total number of cysts	22
No. of hepatic cysts	18 surgically removed; two inactive cysts not removed
No. of extra-hepatic cysts	One surgically removed (splenic); one inactive peritoneal cyst not removed
Size of hepatic cysts	Range; median value (mm)	25–160; 100
Location of surgically removed hepatic cysts	Left lobe (number of cysts)	3
	Right lobe (number of cysts)	15
No. of cysts per stage (WHO-IWGE)	CE3b	13 (13 surgically removed)
	CE3a	1 (one surgically removed)
	CE4	8 (4 + 1† surgically removed)
No. of patients with previous treatments for CE	Albendazole alone	8
	Percutaneous	1
	Surgery + albendazole	1
	Percutaneous + albendazole	2
	None	2
No. of patients with indication for surgery	Infection	1
	Cystobiliary fistula	2
	Compression symptoms	7
	Unresponsiveness to albendazole	4
No. of interventions per type	Marsupialization	4
	Pericystectomy	8 + 1‡
	Lobectomy	2
No. of patients with postsurgical complications	Early (during hospitalization)	2
	Late (after discharge)	1
	None	11

CE = cystic echinococcosis; WHO-IWGE = World Health Organization Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis.

^*Other countries: Morocco (N = 3), Egypt (N = 1), Albania (N = 1), Macedonia (N = 1), and Moldova (N = 1).

^†Four CE4 cysts were hepatic, one splenic.

^‡The patient with extra-hepatic cysts underwent a pericystectomy for the splenic cyst, and marsupialization for the liver cysts.