Giant Hepatic Cyst Treated by Laparoscopy

Abstract

Hepatic cyst is generally a benign lesion founded incidentally during imaging studies for other pathologies. Their prevalence is 4.5 to 7% but is only treated when the patient present symptomatology, in general related with a big size and compression of other abdominal structures. Giant abdominal cyst is considered when bigger than 6cm in some reports, but we presented one case of a cyst of 23cm of diameter and 3.5 liters of content treated laparoscopic ally.