[Pulmonary echinococcosis--primary site of Echinococcus cysticus].

The liver is the preferred organ of echinococcus cysticus, however in 20% of the cases cysts are found in the lung. Case report on a 54-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital with an echinococcus cysticus in the left upper lobe. Differential-diagnostic problems, therapeutic possibility and prognostic aspects of echinococcus of lung are discussed.