Surgical management of polycystic liver disease

Table 1 Open and Laparoscopic fenestration for polycystic liver disease

Reference	No. of patients	Technique (n)	Mortality (%)	Morbidity (%)	Mean follow-up(mo)	Rate of symptomrecurrence (%)	Re-operation(%)
Lin[40]	3	Open	0	0	32	0	0
Van Erpecum[21]	9	Open	1 (11)	0	48	0	0
Turnage[47]	5	Open	1 (20)	1 (20)	10	40	0
Sanchez[67]	7	Open	0	NR	18	57	0
Farges[68]	13	Open	0	9 (69)	84	23	0
Gigot[25]	10	Open (9)	0	6 (60)	73	11	11
		Lap (1)	0	0		0	0
Koperna[41]	39	Open (34)	0	NR	75	21	21
		Lap (5)	0	NR		0	0
Morino[42]	9	Lap (9)	0	4 (44)	NR	40	NR
		Conv. (2)
Kabbej[24]	13	Lap (13)	0	7 (54)	26	72	23
Martin[43]	13	Open (6)	0	2 (33)	96	20	20
		Lap (7)	0	2 (29)	37	71	71
Katkhouda[44]	9	Lap (9)	0	3 (33)	30	11	11
		Conv. (1)
Fiamingo[45]	6	Lap	0	3 (50)	1-671	25	0
Marks[46]	6	Lap	0	4 (67)	2-721	14	0

Lap: Laparoscopic; Conv: Converted from Laparoscopic to Open; NR: Not reported.

¹Follow-up range in months.