[Liver rupture after prolonged use of contraceptive].
Since several years benign liver tumours have been observed as complication of a long-term intake of hormonal contraceptives. Apart from a clinical unconspicuousness uncharacteristic complaints of the epigastrium up to the picture of the acute abdomen due to rupture of the tumour rich in vessels may be appear. A preoperative diagnosis is only rarely successful, and only the laparotomy brings the final diagnostic clarification.
D000328:Adult; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003278:Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000473:pathology; D012421:Rupture
D003276:Contraceptives, Oral; D003278:Contraceptives, Oral, Hormonal
Leberruptur nach mehrjähriger hormonaler Kontrazeption.