title: [Contribution to the knowledge on natural history of giant hepatic angioma].
abstract: Hepatic haemangiomas are mostly discovered by chance because of their limited dimensions. Their treatment is optional and very often an observing conservative strategy is adopted whilst a danger is foreseeing from different facts. Very different is the case of giant haemangiomas discovered because their bulk and discomfort coming from the compression exerted on near structures. In this cases a surgical treatment, segmentectomy or hemiepatectomy, are the current demanding choices. But if the volume of haemangioma is too bulky and occupies most hepatic parenchyma the necessary resection may be too extended and possibly dangerous. The two observations of the paper refer to two patients followed conservatively for over 20 years. In fact the volume of the haemangiomas in both patients was too large, the symptoms were only related to the weight of the mass and therefore a surgical solution was deferred to a possible worsening of the symptomatology. Such worsening didn't happen in the time for both the patients, demonstrating that the natural history of such lesion can also be very benign over many years.
authors.affiliation: Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche Sperimentali e Cliniche Cattedra di Chirurgia Generale III, I Divisione Clinicizzata di Chirurgia Generale, Università degli Studi G. D'Annunzio di Chieti.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sciarretta
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Brizzi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Di Rienzo
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rea
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ghimenti
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Picardi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Contributo alla conoscenza della storia naturale dell'angioma epatico permagno.