Varicocele due to a biliary cystadenoma

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Written By Carl Noronha

Aditya Jayesh Nanavati, Sanjay Nagral
Nov 20, 2014, NCBI

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A 45-year-old man presented to us with a history of upper abdominal fullness, early satiety and decreased appetite. He also had a history of symptoms suggestive of left-sided portal hypertension. CT scan (figure 1) demonstrated a large cystic lesion arising from the left lobe of the liver, compressing the stomach, splenic vein and left renal vein, and a left-sided varicocele.

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