Resection of giant hepatic cyst by hybrid minilaparoscopy

Gustavo Lopes Carvalho; Gustavo Henrique Belarmino Góes; Raimundo Hugo Matias Furtado; Raquel Nogueira Cordeiro; Eduarda Migueis Quintas Calheiros

doi:10.4103/jmas.JMAS_68_18

Resection of giant hepatic cyst by hybrid minilaparoscopy

J Minim Access Surg. 2019 Apr-Jun;15(2):167-169. doi: 10.4103/jmas.JMAS_68_18.

Authors

Gustavo Lopes Carvalho¹, Gustavo Henrique Belarmino Góes², Raimundo Hugo Matias Furtado³, Raquel Nogueira Cordeiro⁴, Eduarda Migueis Quintas Calheiros²

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Pernambuco; Videolaparoscopic Surgery Clinic Gustavo Carvalho; Member of UNIPECLIN (Clinical Research Group of the University of Pernambuco), University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
² Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
³ Department of General Surgery, Oswaldo Cruz University Hospital, Recife, Brazil.
⁴ Department of General Surgery, Pernambuco Health College, Recife, Brazil.

Abstract

A female patient, 59-year-old, was complaining of abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium and mesogastrium for 6 months. Ultrasonography and abdominal computed tomography were performed, both confirming a large hepatic cyst (10.6 cm × 7.6 cm × 7.3 cm) on the left lobe. A hybrid minilaparoscopic resection was proposed. We opted for unroofing the cyst, and the procedure was uneventfully performed, with a total surgical time of 60 min. In the post-operative the patient did well, with minimal abdominal pain, being discharged on the 5^th post-operative day, after drain removal due to the use of intravenous antibiotic therapy.

Keywords: Hepatic cyst; liver cyst; microlaparoscopy; minilaparoscopy; minimally invasive surgery; needlescopic surgery.