Spontaneous rupture of a giant non parasitic hepatic cyst presenting as an acute surgical abdomen

Spontaneous rupture of a non parasitic hepatic cyst is an extremely rare occurrence. A 50 -year-old male, was admitted with typical clinical manifestations of acute surgical abdomen. At exploratory laparotomy, a giant ruptured non parasitic cyst occupying the entire left liver lobe was found, along...

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Main Authors: Nikolaos S. Salemis;, Epameinondas Georgoulis;, Stavros Gourgiotis;, Efstathios Tsohataridis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2007-07-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268119319295