Hepatobiliary cystadenocarcinoma with rapid growth: report of a case.

We describe a case of histologically proven hepatobiliary cystadenocarcinoma with an emphasis on the longterm clinical course. The patient was a 75-year-old man who had been diagnosed as having a simple hepatic cyst at our hospital and had been followed up by abdominal sonography (US) for about 10 years. However, the lesion subsequently showed a sudden increase in size and a marked change in US findings, i.