Giant hepatic cyst causing lower extremity edema and scoliosis

Ichiro Hirayama; Ryota Inokuchi; Masataka Fukue; Kent Doi

doi:10.1002/ccr3.3951

Giant hepatic cyst causing lower extremity edema and scoliosis

Clin Case Rep. 2021 Feb 22;9(4):2483-2484. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.3951. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Authors

Ichiro Hirayama¹, Ryota Inokuchi², Masataka Fukue³, Kent Doi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine The University of Tokyo Hospital Bunkyo-ku Japan.
² Department of Health Services Research Faculty of Medicine University of Tsukuba Tsukuba Japan.
³ Department of Surgery Koga General Hospital Koga General Hospital Koga Japan.

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.

Keywords: endoscopy; huge cyst.