GIANT CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA - A RARE INDICATION FOR LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION

Authors
CHUI PKK VASS S MCCAUGHAN GW SHEIL AGR
Citation
Pkk. Chui et al., GIANT CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA - A RARE INDICATION FOR LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION, Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery, 66(2), 1996, pp. 122-124
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Australian and New Zealand journal of surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
00048682
Volume
66
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
122 - 124
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-8682(1996)66:2<122:GCH-AR>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
This report describes two patients with giant cavernous haemangiomas o ccupying both lobes of their livers and considered unresectable. Both patients had severe symptoms and rupture occurred in one, Both were tr eated successfully by orthotopic liver transplantation.