A Case of Hepatic Foregut Cyst

Yuji Asato, Fuyo Yoshimi, Takao Ohkubo, Tsuneo Ishitsuka, Satoshi Furukawa, Syuji Hishikawa, Takehiko Ota, Hisayoshi Ono, Ryuta Amemiya, Sumihiko Koizumi, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kiyoshi Matsueda*, Hisashi Kobayashi*, Yoshiro Fukuda**, Masayuki Itabashi**

Department of Surgery, Radiology*, Pathology**, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital

Abdominal echography by a family physician of a 59-year-old male patient revealed a 3.5 cm×2.5 cm×2.0 cm abnormal tumor in the medial segment of the liver. He was referred to our hospital and admitted on July 13, 1992. Our pre-operative survey included abdominal echography, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, abdominal angiography, and cytology of the liver tumor, but it could not provide an accurate diagnosis. To eliminate the possibility of a malignancy a medial segmentectomy of the liver was performed on August 27. The final histopathological diagnosis of the tumor was of a ciliated hepatic foregut cyst.

Key words
ciliated hepatic foregut cyst, congenital liver cyst

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Yuji Asato Department of Surgery, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital
6528 Koibuchi, Tomobe-machi, Nishiibaraki-gun, 309-17 JAPAN

Accepted
January 12, 1994

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