Which surgical procedures are used to treat hepatic cysts?
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Which surgical procedures are used to treat hepatic cysts?
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@violet laparoscopic unroofing or marsupialization completely relieved symptoms from either simple lesions or PCLD, with the procedure's morbidity, mortality, and recurrence rates being, respectively, 2%, 0%, and 2% for patients with simple cysts, and 25%, 0%, and 5% for patients with PCLD. For infected cysts, the investigators' procedure of choice was percutaneous drainage, the morbidity, mortality, and recurrence rates for this procedure being, for simple cysts, 0%, 0%, and 75%, respectively, and for PCLD, 0%, 0%, and 20%, respectively.