Diagnostika i khirurgicheskoe lechenie oslozhnennykh form parazitarnykh zabolevaniy ostaetsya slozhnoy i nereshennoy do nastoyashchego vremeni zadachey. Eto obuslovleno ne tol'ko atipichnym klinicheskim techeniem oslozhneniy na fone parazitarnogo protsessa, no i organizatsionnymi problemami, svyazannymi s otsutstviem chetkogo differentsial'no-diagnosticheskogo algoritma, a takzhe chastoy negotovnost'yu vrachey k adekvatnomu lecheniyu etoy kategorii bol'nykh. V silu etikh prichin patsienty s oslozhnennymi formami parazitarnykh zabolevaniy operiruyutsya v pozdnie sroki, chto soprovozhdaetsya chastym razvitiem posleoperatsionnykh oslozhneniy, retsidivov zabolevaniya i vysokoy letal'nost'yu. Naibolee chasto khirurgicheskie oslozhneniya razvivayutsya pri askaridoze kishechnika i ekhinokokkoze pecheni, prichem v poslednem sluchae operativnoe vmeshatel'stvo yavlyaetsya edinstvennym metodom radikal'nogo lecheniya. Uchityvaya vysheizlozhennoe, izuchenie patogeneza, klinicheskoy kartiny, a takzhe metodov diagnostiki, profilaktiki i lecheniya oslozhneniy parazitarnykh zabolevaniy predstavlyaet znachitel'nyy nauchnyy i prakticheskiy interes.