Left-hemihepatectomy as a method of treatment of locally limited Caroli disease

• Authors: Joanna Badura , Robert Król , Adam Kurek , Marek Hartleb , Lech Cierpka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The study introduces a case of a 51-year old patient with Caroli’s disease of left liver lobe. In 2011 the patient was admitted to Clinic of General, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery. She was after first in her life incident of an acute pancreatitis and subsequent ERCP procedure with left hepatic biliary tract drainage. The lady was qualified to left-hemihepatoctomy, which was successfully conducted in our clinic. The only complication of the procedure was surgical site infection which was properly treated with typical antibiotics. One-year observation occurred no other complications and liver function was fine.

Keywords

EN

Caroli’s disease; segmental cystic dilatations; hemihepatoctomy

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 85
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 663-665

Dates

published

1 - 11 - 2013

online

31 - 12 - 2013

Contributors

author

Joanna Badura

• Department of General, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery

author

Robert Król

• Department of General, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery

author

Adam Kurek

• Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

author

Marek Hartleb

• Silesian Medical University in Katowice

author

Lech Cierpka

• Department of General, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/pjs-2013-0100