Monday, March 17, 2008

Hepatic cyst is benign or malignant liver?

Hepatic cyst is a benign tumor, often accompanied by other organs cyst, such as polycystic kidney disease. There is often congenital cyst, or a separate state. Cyst clear border, the allantoic fluid receptacle in the accidental physical examination found that the liver can be found in all of the leaves, but also limited to the timid. Intracapsular liquid ingredients with the cyst type, size, and whether or not complications change. Polycystic liver cyst fluid clarification, if intracystic hemorrhage, the allantoic fluid in brown or red, if complicated by infection, cystic fluid can be a purulent.
Patients usually 40-50 years old before clinical symptoms appear, and the size of the cyst, mainly gastrointestinal symptoms such as indigestion, anorexia, Heating, nausea, vomiting and right upper quadrant pain, but the degree is not heavy. Secondary infection later, there will be chills and fever. Rare enormous oppression choledochal cyst of the liver or jaundice situation. Liver cysts, liver function checks for more than normal. B-scan of liver that many of the dark areas. CT, radionuclide scan help with the substantive phase of tumors and vascular tumor differentiation. As hepatic cysts are benign, and no serious symptoms, it often does not receive special treatment. In recent years using ultrasound-guided puncture of downlink cyst, intracapsular adequate ethanol injection method is simple and safe. On the huge cyst, there is oppression symptoms or cyst with secondary infection, and sometimes need surgical treatment.

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