Laparoscopic complete excision of an enormous simple hepatic cyst occupying the entire abdomen in a child: a case report and literature review

Matsushita, Nozomi; Kaneko, Kenitiro; Kato, Shoko; Odashima, Takayuki; Kondo, Remi; Fukuyama, Takahiro; Saito, Takuya; Fukami, Yasuyuki; Komatsu, Shunichiro; Sano, Tsuyoshi

doi:10.1186/s40792-022-01445-2

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Cases of enormous simple hepatic cysts in children

From: Laparoscopic complete excision of an enormous simple hepatic cyst occupying the entire abdomen in a child: a case report and literature review

Case no	Year	Author	Age at detection	Age at operation	Sex	Symptoms	Preoperative diagnosis	Maximum size/volume	Location	Intervention	Outcome (follow-up)
1	2012	Oh et al. [4]	22 w gestation	8 d	F	AD	Hepatic cyst	10 cm/ND	Right lobe	Laparoscopic deroofing	Well (6 mo)
2	2020	Allan et al. [6]	24 w gestation	19 d	F	AD	Hepatic cyst	> 10 cm/500 mL	Umbilical fissure	Complete Ex	Well (2 y)
3	2020	Allan et al. [6]	30 w gestation	2 d	F	AD, respiratory distress	Hepatic cyst	12 cm/800 mL	Segment 2	Antenatal aspiration, deroofing	Well (3 y)
4	2012	Sauvat et al. [8]	33 w gestation	7 d	M	AD	Hepatic cyst	7.5 cm/ND	Right lobe	Deroofing	Well (ND)
5	1986	Michel et al. [9]	39 w gestation	0 d	F	AD, respiratory distress	Hepatic cyst	13 cm/ND	Left lobe	Cesarian section due to AD Complete Ex	Well (ND)
6	2000	Shankar et al. [10]	Antenatal	1 d	F	AD, vomiting, respiratory distress	Abdominal cyst	20 cm/ND	Right lobe	Deroofing	Well (ND)
7^a	1990	Merine et al. [11]	0 d	0 d	F	AD, respiratory distress	Hepatic cyst	14 cm/400 mL	Right lobe	Complete Ex	Well (1 y)
8	2016	Bhosale and Singh [12]	0 d	3 d	M	AD, respiratory distress	Enteric duplication	15 cm/600 mL	Umbilical fissure	Deroofing	Operational death
9	1991	Kouchi et al. [13]	30 d	35 d	F	AD, feeding intolerance	ND	17 cm/250 mL	Both lobes	Deroofing	Well (3 y)
10^b	1974	Saboo et al. [14]	3 mo	3 mo	F	AD, feeding intolerance, respiratory distress	Hydronephrosis or lymphatic cyst	ND/1.7 L	Left lobe	Complete Ex	Well (ND)
11	1982	Hashimoto et al. [15]	5 mo	5 mo	F	AD	Hepatic cyst	14 cm/ND	Both lobes	Deroofing	ND
12	2021	Present case	18 mo	18 mo	F	AD	Hepatic cyst	17 cm/1.5 L	Segment 5, 6	Laparoscopic complete Ex	Well (1 y)
13	1995	Pul and Pul [3]	18 mo	22 mo	F	AD	Hepatic cyst	20 cm/ND	Both lobes	Deroofing	Well (7 y)
14	2013	Banerjee and Lakhoo [16]	4 y	4 y	F	AD, abdominal pain, vomiting	Mesenteric cyst	19 cm/2 L	Right lobe	Deroofing	Well (1 y)
15	2001	Charles et al. [17]	8 y	8 y	F	AD, abdominal pain	Ovarian cyst	30 cm/ND	Right lobe	Complete Ex	ND

w weeks, d days, mo months, y years, F female, M male, AD abdominal distension, ND not described, Ex excision
^aPossible mesenchymal hamartoma
^bMultilocular cyst

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