Hydatid disease of spleen treated by cyst enucleation and splenic salvage.

A 4-year-old boy with unilocular hydatid cysts of spleen and liver was successfully treated by enucleation of both the cysts and salvage of the spleen. The conventional surgical treatment of choice for hydatid cyst of the spleen is splenectomy. The authors demonstrate that preservation of a spleen afflicted by hydatid disease is technically feasible and is recommended as the choice of treatment to obviate the well-recognized postsplenectomy complications especially in children.