Treatment of liver hemangiomas by enucleation
A. Alper, O. Ariogul, A. Emre, A. Uras and A. Okten
Department Istabul Medical School, Turkey.
Nine patients with hemangiomas of the liver were treated by enucleation
between 1976 and 1985 at the Surgical Department of Istanbul (Turkey)
Medical School. The tumors were removed by dissecting the plane between the
capsule of the hemangioma and normal liver tissue. The diameters of the
tumors ranged from 8 to 23 cm. There was no mortality and no massive
bleeding. It is suggested that hemangiomas can be removed by an enucleation
technique with low mortality and morbidity, rather than by liver resection.