Ciliated hepatic foregut cyst
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Copyright C 2012 by The Korean Association for the Study of the Liver This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Figure 1. Portal venous phase of contrast computed tomography showing a 1.5 cm-sized, oval-shaped, low attenuated cystic lesion in hepatic segment IV (arrow). INTRODUCTION
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