Mucinous Cystic Adenoma of the Liver: A Thought-Provoking Case of an Uncommon Hepatic Neoplasm

Hikotaro Katsura; Tomohide Hori; Hideki Harada; Kazuyoshi Matsumura; Michihiro Yamamoto; Masahiro Yamada; Takefumi Yazawa; Ben Sasaki; Katsutoshi Kuriyama; Masaki Tani; Asahi Sato; Yudai Sasaki; Hidekazu Yamamoto

doi:10.12659/AJCR.931368

03 April 2021 : Case report Japan

Mucinous Cystic Adenoma of the Liver: A Thought-Provoking Case of an Uncommon Hepatic Neoplasm

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Hikotaro Katsura^1BCDEF, Tomohide Hori^1ABCDEF*, Hideki Harada^1DF, Kazuyoshi Matsumura^2CD, Michihiro Yamamoto^1DF, Masahiro Yamada^1DF, Takefumi Yazawa^3DF, Ben Sasaki^1DF, Katsutoshi Kuriyama^2CD, Masaki Tani^1DF, Asahi Sato^1DF, Yudai Sasaki^1DF, Hidekazu Yamamoto^1DF

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.931368

Am J Case Rep 2021; 22:e931368

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Table 1. Diagnostic algorithm of epithelium-lined cystic lesions of the liver [2].

	Cystic lesions	Ovarian-like stroma into the wall	Epithelial invasion	Pathological diagnosis
Epithelium-lined	Biliary, mucinous and/or oncosystic (with or without papillary architecture)	Yes	Yes	MCN with an associated invasive carcinoma
		Yes	No	MCN
		No	Yes	Malignant IPNB Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with cystic change
		No	No	IPNB
	Ciliated	Ciliated foregut cyst		Ciliated foregut cyst
	Cuboidal and/or low columnar			Solitary bile duct cyst
				Obstructive biliary dilatation
				Others
IPNB – intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the bile duct; MCN – mucinous cystic neoplasm.

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