title: Surgical treatment of giant cavernous hemangiomas of the liver--analysis of 7 patients.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Kosin Medical College, Pusan, Korea.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Seo
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Huh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007077:Ileal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology; D011379:Prognosis; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000209:etiology; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000209:etiology; D014456:Ulcer / Q000209:etiology