Unusual presentation of polycystic liver disease in a young man.

ABSTRACT

Polycystic disease of the liver is usually asymptomatic. The main symptoms of cystic disease are those of an enlarging liver or due to compression of the adjacent organs caused by a large cyst. Less than 5% of these patients present with clinically challenging and life threatening complications. We present a patient with polycystic disease of the liver who developed an aneurysm arising from the right hepatic artery presenting with surgical obstructive jaundice. In spite of intraperitoneal rupture of the aneurysm the patient was managed successfully.