bone cysts/abdominal pain

Nine patients with 16 symptomatic nonneoplastic congenital hepatic cysts were treated prospectively by ultrasonically guided percutaneous minocycline hydrochloride injection, and the usefulness of this treatment was evaluated. Seven of the patients had multiple hepatic cysts, and two solitary cysts.

We report on a 16-year old girl with postoperative biliary atresia developing cystic dilatation of the intrahepatic biliary system (CDIB) with abdominal pain, which was relieved after percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD). A cyst was detected in segment 4 of the liver at the age of 14

The clinical presentation, pathology, and appropriate surgical management of cysts of the liver were analyzed in a review of 150 cases of hepatic cystic disease encountered surgically at the Mayo Clinic from Jan. 1, 1954, through Dec. 31, 1971. The incidence of this disease was 17 per 10,000

Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma (UES) of liver is a rare form of liver tumor in children. It may have an atypical presentation leading to delay in diagnosis. The authors report on 3 consecutive children with this condition, each of them presenting in older children who presented with this