Polycystic liver disease
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| Micrograph showing a von Meyenburg complex, a bile duct hamartoma associated with polycystic liver disease. Trichrome stain. | |
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| Specialty | medical genetics |
| ICD-10 | Q44.6 |
| OMIM | 174050 |
| DiseasesDB | 33340 |
Polycystic liver disease (PLD) usually describes the presence of multiple cysts scattered throughout normal liver tissue, in association with polycystic kidney disease.
Associations with PRKCSH and SEC63 have been described. Polycystic liver disease comes in two forms as autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (with kidney cysts) and autosomal dominant polycystic liver disease (liver cysts only).
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