in another patient successfully later on. Although the attempt of percutaneous drainage treatment of splenic cyst hydatidosis in 2 other patients failed in our study [2] , a recent study from Turkey stated that percutaneous treatment modality could be applied with a very high success rate [3] . We think that, although splenectomy usually remains the treatment of choice for most of the surgeons, partial cystectomy and omentopexy should be performed whenever possible as a safe method that do not interfere with splenic functions. Percutaneous treatment of hydatid cyst of spleen needs to be evaluated further. Dear Editor, We have read the original article ‘Primary Splenic Hydatidosis’ by Durgun et al. [1] with interest. The authors evaluated 14 patients with isolated splenic hydatid cyst. All their patients underwent elective splenectomy with a 28.5% complication rate and without any recurrence. They suggested splenectomy as an ideal procedure for the treatment of splenic hydatidosis. In our series of splenic hydatidosis of the same patient size [2] , we had performed spleen-preserving surgery, namely partial cystectomy and omentopexy in 2 patients with good long-term results. We also performed partial cystectomy and omentopexy Published online: August 31, 2005