Liver cysts are a very common benign disease. Patients are very nervous after physical examination to find liver cysts and are easily misled to do some unnecessary or incorrect treatment.
A brief description of liver cysts is given.
There are parasitic (mostly encapsulated worm disease) and non-parasitic.
Non-parasitic liver cysts include.
Congenital, Acquired (traumatic, inflammatory, tumorigenic).
The congenital ones are the most common and are mostly found on physical examination, some with multiple combined polycystic liver polycystic kidney and even polycystic pancreas.
Tumorigenic and parasitic require surgical removal, and inflammatory or rather bile retention due to gallstones or biliary strictures mostly require relief of the primary disease.
Traumatic ones need to be treated if there are symptoms of compression or co-infection, but smaller ones are mostly self-absorbing.
Most congenital liver cysts are small, slow-growing, without obvious clinical symptoms, and have no effect on the human body or liver, so they do not need treatment and drugs are useless.
Congenital liver cysts need treatment only when combined with the following conditions.
1. fast-growing liver cysts, with large diameter of liver cysts and symptoms of compression.
2, combined with infection.
3, cannot be distinguished from tumorigenic or other diseases.
4, polycystic liver causing continuous deterioration of liver function.
Treatment modalities.
1.Ultrasound-guided cyst puncture and aspiration with alcohol injection to prevent recurrence.
2, laparoscopic cystotomy.
3, cystectomy.
4, cystic jejunostomy.
5, liver transplantation.
It is important to note that.
1, no effect of oral or intravenous use of drugs.
2, the second treatment is recommended, laparoscopy is less traumatic, the effect is exact, the abdominal cavity can be explored for other lesions, simple cyst puncture is prone to recurrence, alcohol injection has the risk of leakage, the third and fourth require strict surgical indications.