Indeed, simple liver cysts are almost always asymptomatic and found incidentally during routine testing for something else. These masses are not cancerous and not even dangerous. Simple cysts of the ...
The American College of Gastroenterology has issued a new, evidence-based guideline on the diagnosis and management of focal liver lesions (FLLs), published online August 19 in the American Journal of ...
In this study, the clinicopathological characteristics of hepatic mucinous cystic neoplasms are compared with those of biliary intraductal papillary neoplasms. The diagnosis of mucinous cystic ...
Hello. I am Dr David Johnson, professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Welcome back to another installment of GI Common Concerns, in ...
Liver cysts are among the most frequent focal lesions found on hepatic ultrasonography, with a high prevalence of 15% to 18% reported in the United States. They are most commonly simple cysts, but ...
Biliary cystic tumors, which are also called biliary cystadenoma and cystadenocarcinoma, are thought to be a heterogeneous disease entity, and some of them are known to show a luminal communication to ...
(HealthDay News) — Focal liver lesions (FLLs) are mostly benign, and can be diagnosed based on knowledge of their presentation, associated clinical and laboratory features, and natural history, ...