Mabit’s technique for hydatidosis. A centennary revisit

Abstract

The paper published by Sebastián Mabit in France describing what he called his technique for the surgical treatment of hydatid cysts, and the previous thesis of one of its trainees, share a group of patients operated by Mabit in the Hospital Francés of Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century.
There are some doubts about the origin of such technique due to differences in the description of the operations. These differences are described below.