title: [Extracorporeal surgery and liver autotransplantation].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Though the great majority of hepatic and perihepatic neoplasms may very well be treated by conventional surgical techniques, a few patients will have lesions seemingly inaccessible by traditional in situ surgical procedures.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present two patients with retrohepatic sarcoma and liver haemangioma respectively, treated by hepatectomy, ex situ resection and hepatic autotransplantation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The first patient, a 64-year-old man, had a completely uneventful postoperative course and had no indication of recurrent sarcoma two years later. The second patient, a 29-year-old female with a giant hepatic haemangioma developed postoperative hepatic artery thrombosis. Following thrombectomy her further course was satisfactory and the patient was discharged with normal liver function three weeks postoperatively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ex situ liver surgery (bench surgery) with liver autotransplantation should be considered when traditional in situ surgery on the liver or adjacent structures is not applicable.
authors.affiliation: Transplantasjonskirurgisk seksjon, Rikshospitalet, Oslo. inge.brekke@rikshospitalet.no
authors.forename: Inge B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Brekke
authors.forename: Pål-Dag
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Line
authors.forename: Øystein
authors.initials: Ø
authors.lastname: Mathisen
authors.forename: Svein
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Osnes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous / Q000379:methods*