Cysts growing on the liver of the elderly may be liver tumors, or liver abscesses, hepatic cysticercosis and other diseases. 1. Liver tumor: It is a new organism formed by proliferation and abnormal differentiation of body cells under the action of various initiating and promoting factors, which grows in the liver, resulting in the appearance of a cyst on the liver. 2. Liver abscess: Liver abscess is a suppurative lesion of the liver caused by various microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi or amoeba, resulting in the appearance of a cyst on the liver. 3. Hepatic cysticercosis: caused by echinococcus tapeworm infection, with the gradual increase of cysts, patients may have a feeling of fullness and tugging, right upper abdominal pain or dull pain, resulting in a cyst on the liver looks long. Elderly people with cysts on the liver may also be seen in hepatitis, hepatocellular carcinoma and other diseases, if the symptoms of elderly people with cysts on the liver, persistent and unrelieved, you need to seek medical treatment.