“…However, the disease is often diagnosed in the late stages when the parasite reaches large sizes or mechanical jaundice develops, since patients do not have any symptoms of the disease in the early stages when resection of the liver is feasible [4,6,[9][10][11]. Due to these factors, operations for alveolar echinococcosis are characterized by a large extent, are connected with reconstructive and plastic interventions on the great vessels and biliary ducts [12]. сlinical medicine Standard radical liver resection becomes hardly feasible in the situations with a large volume of the damaged parenchyma, invasion of the afferent and/or efferent hepatic vessels, retrohepatic segment of the inferior vena cava (IVC), and the right atrium [4,6,13,14], often requiring orthotopic liver transplantation, which enables complete removal of the parasitic tumor, resection and plastic surgery of the great vessels and may be regarded as a principle method of the radical treatment in the socalled unresectable alveolar echinococcosis of the liver [3,6,[15][16][17].…”