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cyst

Hollow cavity in an animal or plant, lined with epithelium and usually filled with fluid. Cysts may be normal, for example the urinary bladder, or pathological, for example an ovarian cyst.



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1-3) The diagnosis, surgical findings and treatment of an adult patient who presented to us with a type I choledochal cyst are described and the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment and cancer risk of choledochal cysts are discussed.
5) Autosomal dominant polycystic liver disease Autosomal dominant polycystic liver disease is part of the spectrum of fibropolycystic liver diseases that are caused by congenital bile duct malformation, including bile duct hamartoma, Caroli's disease, congenital hepatic fibrosis, and choledochal cyst.
of patients Total number of patients 27 Male/female 22/5 Associated surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy) 11 Omentopexy 16 Right lobe/left lobe 20/7 Histopathology Simple hepatic cyst 22 Sequestered choledochal cyst 5 Table 2.
 
 
 
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