Surgical treatment of giant cavernous hemangiomas of the liver: analysis of 7 patients.
10.3346/jkms.1991.6.2.127
- Author:
Jae Kwan SEO
1
;
Byung Ki LEE
;
Kwang Hee KIM
;
Man Ha HUH
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, Kosin Medical College, Pusan, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Cavernous hemangioma;
Benign hepatic tumor;
Vascular tumor;
Hepatic resection
- MeSH:
Adult;
Child;
Female;
Hemangioma, Cavernous/*surgery;
Humans;
Ileal Diseases/etiology;
Liver Neoplasms/*surgery;
Male;
Middle Aged;
Postoperative Complications/etiology;
Prognosis;
Stomach Ulcer/etiology;
Stress, Physiological/etiology;
Ulcer/etiology
- From:Journal of Korean Medical Science
1991;6(2):127-133
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Seven patients with giant cavernous hemangioma of the liver were treated surgically with success at Pusan Gospel Hospital, Kosin Medical College, Pusan, from 1980 through 1989. They were 3 males and 4 females, and their ages ranged from 6 to 59 years. The tumors were located on the right lobe of the liver in 5 patients and on the left lobe in 2. The lesions were solitary in all patients, and their sizes varied from 4cm to 15cm in diameter. All patients underwent hepatic resection: 1 right hepatic lobectomy and 4 partial resections for tumors on the right lobe, and 1 left lobectomy and 1 left lateral segmentectomy for tumors on the left lobe. There was no surgical death, but 1 patient had a postoperative complication: multiple stress ulcers on the stomach and ileum. The pathologic diagnosis was cavernous hemangioma in all cases. In the long-term follow-up, there was no recurrence of preoperative symptoms in any patient.
