Solitary hepatic lymphangioma mimicking liver malignancy: A case report and literature review

Table 3 Initial diagnosis and surgical findings of reviewed cases

No.	Initial diagnosis	Location	Number	Size in cm	Texture	Type of surgery
1	Hepatic cyst	Hepatoduodenal ligament	1	13 × 10	Unilocular cyst with serous fluid	LPR/CR
2	Hepatic cystadenoma/cystadenocarcinoma	Segments 7 and 8	1	23 × 30	Multilocular cyst with bloody fluid	CR
3	ND	Right lobe	1	14.9 × 10.7 × 9.7	Unilocular cyst	CR
4	Rupture of a hepatic tumor	Left lobe	1	12.0 × 9.5	Multilocular cyst with blood clot	CR
5	Bile duct cyst/biliary cystadenoma/cystadenocarcinoma/hydatid cyst	Segment 2	1	16.2 × 13.0 × 4.3	Multilocular cyst with serous fluid	CR
6	Hepatic hemangioma/cystadenocarcinoma	Right lobe	1	23 × 15 × 7	Multilocular cyst with brownish fluid	CR
7	Hepatic cyst	Gallbladder and hepatoduodenal ligament	1	13.0 × 5.5 × 6.5	Multilocular cyst with serous fluid	CR
8	ND	Segment 5	1	15 × 9	Unilocular cyst	CR
9	Liver malignancy	Segment 5	1	3.0 × 2.2 × 1.5	Multilocular cyst with mucoid fluid	CR
10	Cystadenoma/cystadenocarcinoma/hepatic cyst with bleeding	Segments 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	1	25 × 23	Multilocular cyst with blood clot	CR
11	Sclerosing hemangioma/biliary cystadenoma/cystadenocarcinoma	Segment 4	1	3	Multilocular cyst with mucoid fluid and solid content	CR
12	Uncertainty	Right lobe	1	9.6 × 8.0 × 13.0	Unilocular cyst with yellowish fluid	CR
13	ND	Right lobe	1	12.6 × 9.4 × 11.5	Multilocular cyst with serous fluid	CR
14	Hepatic cyst	Gallbladder	1	15.2 × 9.4	Multilocular cyst with serous fluid	CR
15	Hepatic cyst	Right lobe	1	ND	Multilocular cyst with serous fluid	CR
16	Hepatic lymphangioma	Segments 4 5, 6	1	21 × 20 × 6	Multilocular cyst with brownish fluid	CR
17	Lymphangioma/mesenteric cyst	Segment 4	1	20 × 14	Multilocular cyst	CR
18	Uncertainty	Segment 3	1	4	Sponge-like cyst with chylous fluid and blood	CR
19	Hydatid cyst	ND	1	ND	Cystic	Resection

CR: Complete resection; LPR: Laparoscopic partial resection; ND: Not described.