title: Left hepatic lobectomy for type IV-A choledochal cyst.
abstract: We report a case of a 37-year-old woman who was diagnosed with a type IV-A choledochal cyst with intrahepatic bile duct strictures. Because the stricture in the medial segment was located too far from the hilum for a hepaticojejunostomy we performed a left hepatic lobectomy. In this report we evaluate the therapeutic benefit of hepatectomy in a patient with a type IV-A choledochal cyst involving the intrahepatic bile ducts.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Masuda
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ugajin
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koshinaga
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fukuzawa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015529:Choledochal Cyst / Q000145:classification / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans