A Case of Benign Hepatic Cyst with Supra-elevated Cyst Fluid Tumor Markers

Alexander Tonthat¹, Danvi Bui², Miriam Romero³, Emily Lo⁴, Gary Kanel⁴, Takeshi Saito^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² College of Osteopathic Medicine, Western University School of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA.
³ Division of Body Imaging, Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. saitotak@usc.edu.
⁶ Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and Pathology, Department of Medicine, USC Research Center for Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, 2011 Zonal Avenue, HMR 801A, Los Angeles, CA, 90033-9141, USA. saitotak@usc.edu.

Case Reports

Alexander Tonthat et al. Dig Dis Sci. 2021 Nov.

. 2021 Nov;66(11):4063-4067.

doi: 10.1007/s10620-020-06727-z. Epub 2021 Jan 6.

Alexander Tonthat¹, Danvi Bui², Miriam Romero³, Emily Lo⁴, Gary Kanel⁴, Takeshi Saito^{5

6}

¹ Department of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² College of Osteopathic Medicine, Western University School of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA.
³ Division of Body Imaging, Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. saitotak@usc.edu.
⁶ Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and Pathology, Department of Medicine, USC Research Center for Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, 2011 Zonal Avenue, HMR 801A, Los Angeles, CA, 90033-9141, USA. saitotak@usc.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: Biliary cystadenocarcinoma; Biliary cystadenoma; CA 19-9; Liver cyst; Tumor marker.

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