Successful left trisegmentectomy for polycystic liver disease accompanied by jaundice.
BACKGROUND
We report a case of severe polycystic liver disease (PLD) with jaundice in a 57-year-old woman who underwent successful left trisegmentectomy.


METHODS
She was admitted for the first time in February 1992 to our hospital with a 7-year history of PLD, and became jaundiced in June 1995. Because normal liver parenchyma was confirmed mainly to the posterior segment, left trisegmentectomy was performed.


RESULTS
No postoperative complication occurred. The serum bilirubin level decreased promptly after the operation, but postoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiography showed that the root of the posterior hepatic duct remained thin. Thus, the elimination of jaundice was presumed to have been caused by a decrease of intra-abdominal and peripheral biliary pressure, since a large volume of tissue had been removed from the peritoneal cavity. She has since remained well without any symptoms.


CONCLUSIONS
This procedure is useful for severe PLD, because it can be performed safely and the symptoms disappear dramatically. However, further follow-up is needed to determine the long-term effects of this procedure, because the remaining liver has shown some increase in size.
Endo
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Second Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan. endoit@med.yokohama-cu.ac.jp
Tanabe
M
M
Tanaka
K
K
Ishikawa
T
T
Sekido
H
H
Togo
S
S
Nakano
A
A
Shimada
H
H
D002760:Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed