Surgery for adult polycystic liver disease

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• 作者：Claudio Soravia ; Gilles Mentha ; Emiliano Giostra ; Philippe Morel ; Adrien Rohner
• 刊名：Surgery
• 出版年：1995
• 出版时间：March 1995
• 年：1995
• 卷：117
• 期：3
• 页码：272-275
• 全文大小：353 K

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Background. Occasionally patients with adult polycystic liver disease (APLD) have symptoms. For these patients surgery may represent a valuable therapeutic option to relieve symptoms.

Methods. From September 1977 to August 1993 at our institution, 10 women with APLD were examined and surgically treated. They underwent a partial hepatic resection together with cyst fenestration. The surgical outcome and long-term follow-up were retrospectively analyzed.

Results. Postoperative morbidity consisted of one case of pneumonia, and one case of acute pancreatitis with deep vein leg thrombosis. One patient died after acute Budd-Chiari syndrome developed as a result of liver collapse after fenestration of a posterior cyst. In the long term six of nine patients were symptom free. Late surgical complications included acute cholecystitis (one patient), small bowel obstruction (one), and incisional hernia (two).

Conclusions. A combined surgical approach of hepatic resection and cyst fenestration has proved feasible for patients with highly symptomatic APLD. Extensive fenestration of posterior cysts should be avoided; transverse hepatic resection (frontal hepatectomy) up to the costal margin is proposed. This therapy provides good results at long-term follow-up.