Asuquo Maurice, Nwagbara Victor, Agbor Cyril, Otobo Fidelis, Omotoso Ayodele
University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Surgery.
University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Pathology.
Afr Health Sci. 2015 Mar;15(1):293-8. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v15i1.40.
Giant cysts of the liver are uncommon. Symptoms are related primarily to the mass effect of the enlarging cyst.
To highlight the challenges of management of giant simple hepatic cyst in a resource limited setting.
Presented is a 58-year-old seamstress with a 5-year history of an enlarging abdominal mass with easy satiety. Surgery revealed an exophytic giant simple hepatic cyst arising from liver segment IV that drained 4.6 litres of serous fluid.
Simple hepatic cyst can attain giant dimensions and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of intraabdominal masses.
巨大肝囊肿并不常见。症状主要与囊肿不断增大所产生的占位效应有关。
强调在资源有限的情况下处理巨大单纯性肝囊肿所面临的挑战。
本文介绍了一名58岁的女裁缝,有腹部肿块逐渐增大伴易饱感5年的病史。手术发现一个源于肝IV段的外生性巨大单纯性肝囊肿,抽出了4.6升浆液性液体。
单纯性肝囊肿可发展至巨大尺寸,在腹腔内肿块的鉴别诊断中应予以考虑。