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ArticleTitle Spontaneous Disappearance of a Hepatic Cyst

AuthorList Hiroshi Yoshida¹, Masahiko Onda¹, Takashi Tajiri¹, Yasuhiro Mamada¹, Nobuhiko Taniai¹, Eiji Uchida¹, Yasuo Arima¹, Koho Akimaru¹ and Eiichi Uchida²

Affiliation ¹First Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School ²Uchida Hospital

Language EN

Volume 68

Issue 1

Year 2001

Page 58-60

Received September 31, 2000

Accepted October 4, 2000

Keywords spontaneous disappearance, liver cyst

Abstract The spontaneous disappearance of a hepatic cyst is described. A 62-year-old woman presented with symptoms of general fatigue in August 1992. Her past medical history was significant for chronic hepatitis, which was diagnosed in 1990 but not treated. Initial laboratory tests revealed mild liver dysfunction with a positive serologic test for hepatitis C. In August 1992, ultrasonography and computed tomography disclosed a cystic lesion along the middle hepatic vein in the right anterior segment of the liver, which was 40 mm in diameter. Repeat radiologic studies in June 1994 demonstrated that the size of the cyst was unchanged. In May 1995, the cyst was only 25 mm in diameter, and it continued to decrease in size thereafter, to 10 mm in September 1995 and 7 mm in September 1996. No hepatic cyst was visualized in December 1996, though the region in which the cyst existed was hyperechoic. Laboratory data were essentially unchanged from August 1992 to December 1996. Clinically the patient remained asymptomatic.

Correspondence to Hiroshi Yoshida, M.D.,First Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan

ArticleTitle	Spontaneous Disappearance of a Hepatic Cyst
AuthorList	Hiroshi Yoshida¹, Masahiko Onda¹, Takashi Tajiri¹, Yasuhiro Mamada¹, Nobuhiko Taniai¹, Eiji Uchida¹, Yasuo Arima¹, Koho Akimaru¹ and Eiichi Uchida²
Affiliation	¹First Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School ²Uchida Hospital
Language	EN
Volume	68
Issue	1
Year	2001
Page	58-60
Received	September 31, 2000
Accepted	October 4, 2000
Keywords	spontaneous disappearance, liver cyst
Abstract	The spontaneous disappearance of a hepatic cyst is described. A 62-year-old woman presented with symptoms of general fatigue in August 1992. Her past medical history was significant for chronic hepatitis, which was diagnosed in 1990 but not treated. Initial laboratory tests revealed mild liver dysfunction with a positive serologic test for hepatitis C. In August 1992, ultrasonography and computed tomography disclosed a cystic lesion along the middle hepatic vein in the right anterior segment of the liver, which was 40 mm in diameter. Repeat radiologic studies in June 1994 demonstrated that the size of the cyst was unchanged. In May 1995, the cyst was only 25 mm in diameter, and it continued to decrease in size thereafter, to 10 mm in September 1995 and 7 mm in September 1996. No hepatic cyst was visualized in December 1996, though the region in which the cyst existed was hyperechoic. Laboratory data were essentially unchanged from August 1992 to December 1996. Clinically the patient remained asymptomatic.
Correspondence to	Hiroshi Yoshida, M.D.,First Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8603, Japan