OUR SURGICAL EXPERIENCE WITH BENIGN HEPAT IC TUMOR EXERESIS - A SERIES OF 31 CASES

The authors report their experience about 31 patients (30 women and 1 man, mean age 45,7 years) opered for a benign hepatic tumor between 19 84 and 1993. There were 12 focal nodular hyperplasia, 9 simple hepatic cysts, 8 hemangioma and 1 hepatic adenoma. All but one (a cyst) tumor s were completely resected. The reasons of indications for surgery (wh ich is contreversial) are then discussed, most of them being based on doubts concerning correct identification of the tumor (despite a moder n assessment by imaging) or symptoms or risks of the tumor.