Radiologic Reporting of Simple Hepatic Cyst Versus Biliary Cystadenoma May Lead to Unnecessary Surgery

CONCLUSION: In summary, there is a growing trend of "ruling-out the diagnosis of biliary cystadenoma" in patients who present with liver cysts. Patients are appropriately more anxious after this preoperative diagnosis and the treating surgeons have medico-legal concerns regarding conservative management in asymptomatic patients diagnosed as BCA. This single center experience draws attention to the radiology criteria utilized for diagnosing a biliary cystadenoma and suggests that it is time to revisit the imaging interpretation and differential diagnosis.PMID:34806934 | DOI:10.1177/00031348211054077
Source: The American Surgeon - Category: Surgery Authors: Source Type: research