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Giant hepatic cyst causing lower extremity edema and scoliosis
Ichiro Hirayama1, Ryota Inokuchi2, Masataka Fukue3
1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine The University of Tokyo Hospital Bunkyo-ku Japan.
Clinical Case Reports
|May 3, 2021
Abstract:
Hepatic cysts usually do not cause symptoms and may be detected incidentally on abdominal imaging. However, a giant hepatic cyst can rarely compress the inferior vena cava, right lung, and spine, leading to edema of lower extremities and scoliosis.
