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Clinical Pathological Correlations > Polycystic Liver Disease

A 57 year old woman with a history of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, status post renal transplant, has right upper quadrant abdominal pain, recurrent episodes of sepsis and portal hypertension...


This patient underwent a liver transplant. The explanted liver weighed 2400 grams and contained numerous cysts filled with clear fluid ranging from 0.4 to 10 cm. Microscopic sections of the liver are shown below.



Diagnosis and Discussion.