Left-hemihepatectomy as a method of treatment of locally limited Caroli disease.

The study introduces a case of a 51-year old patient with Caroli's disease of left liver lobe. In 2011 the patient was admitted to Clinic of General, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery. She was after first in her life incident of an acute pancreatitis and subsequent ERCP procedure with left hepatic biliary tract drainage. The lady was qualified to left-hemihepatoctomy, which was successfully conducted in our clinic. The only complication of the procedure was surgical site infection which was properly treated with typical antibiotics. One-year observation occurred no other complications and liver function was fine.