INTRAHEPATIC HEMATOMA SECONDARY TO PELIOS IS HEPATITIS IN A PATIENT TREATED WITH ORAL-CONTRACEPTIVES

The case of a patient is reported, who developed peliosis hepatis duri ng contraceptive steroid therapy. This was clinically manifested as a spontaneous hepatic hematoma. No underlying liver tumor could be detec ted by both invasive and non-invasive investigations. Oral contracepti ves should be listed among the potential albeit exceptional causes of liver hematoma, and this clinical presentation of peliosis hepatis add ed to the possible manifestations of that obscure condition.