Giant cavernous haemangioma: a rare indication for liver transplantation

TitleGiant cavernous haemangioma: a rare indication for liver transplantation
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1996
AuthorsChui AK, Vass J, McCaughan GW, Sheil AG
JournalAust N Z J Surg
Volume66
Issue2
Pagination122 - 4
Date PublishedFeb
Accession Number8602810
Keywords*Liver Transplantation, Adult, Female, Hemangioma, Cavernous / pathology / radiography / *surgery, Humans, Liver / pathology, Liver Neoplasms / pathology / radiography / *surgery, Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Abstract

This report describes two patients with giant cavernous haemangiomas occupying both lobes of their livers and considered unresectable. Both patients had severe symptoms and rupture occurred in one. Both were treated successfully by orthotopic liver transplantation.

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