title: Ciliated hepatic foregut cyst with solid tumor appearance on CT.
abstract: We report a patient with a rare cystic hepatic tumor that was demonstrated as a high density mass by unenhanced CT and as a cystic mass with high echoic spots by ultrasonography. At surgery, the tumor was a unilocular cyst containing viscid tan fluid. Histopathologically, it was lined by ciliated epithelium and diagnosed as ciliated hepatic foregut cyst. We discuss the correlation between radiological imaging and content of the cyst.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makuuchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takayasu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirohashi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed