Resection of giant liver hemangioma in a pregnant woman with coagulopathy: Case report and literature review.
BACKGROUND
Hemangioma is a common benign tumor in the liver and usually asymptomatic. Scanty evidence concerning treatment modality of symptomatic hemangioma during pregnancy exists.


METHODS
A 35 year-old woman with giant hepatic cavernous hemangioma developed consumption coagulopathy due to the enlarged tumor, and underwent danaparoid therapy from 5 weeks of gestation (GW). Magnetic resonance image revealed giant hemangioma with 20 cm in diameter in the right lobe of the liver. A surgical operation of liver resection was successfully performed at 16 GW. Thereafter, the coagulopathy disappeared. She delivered a healthy male infant at 36 GW.


CONCLUSIONS
This is the first case report of surgical resection therapy for giant liver hemangioma during pregnancy.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan.
Yasuhiko
Y
Ebina
Ryoichi
R
Hazama
Masashi
M
Nishimoto
Kenji
K
Tanimura
Yoshiya
Y
Miyahara
Mayumi
M
Morizane
Koji
K
Nakabayashi
Takumi
T
Fukumoto
Yonson
Y
Ku
Hideto
H
Yamada