Combined hepatic resection with fenestration for highly symptomatic polycystic liver disease: A report on seven patients

Table 3 Review of the literature: mortality, morbidity and outcome of patients with PLD treated by combined hepatic resection an cystic fenestration

Authors	No. of patients	Mortality (no.)	Morbidity (no.)	Follow-up (mos)	No. of symptom- free patients
Armitage et al[12] (1984)	1	0	0	12	1
Iwatsuki et al[13] (1988)	6	0	0	-	-
Newman et al[2] (1990)	9	1	6	17	7
Sanchez et al[8] (1991)	2	0	0	48	2
Vauthey et al[1] (1992)	5	0	4	14	5
Henne-Bruns et al[14] (1993)	8	0	3	15	6
Soravia et al[15] (1995)	10	1	2	68	6
Que et al[16] (1995)	31	1	18	29	28
Vons et al[17] (1998)	12	1	10	34	1 0
Johnson et al[18] (1999)	1	0	0	18	1
Our series	7	0	7	0	6
Total	92	4 (4.3%)	50 (54.3%)		72 (78.3%)