Laparoscopic isolated caudate lobectomy of two symptomatic familiar giant liver hemangiomas, case reports and literature review
Abstract:Background and objective: Liver hemangioma (LH) is the most common benign tumour of the liver, but its origin is still not clear and not much is known about a possible familiarity. Caudate lobectomy is the most effective surgical treatment for benign tumors arisen in segment I. The occurrence of giant LH within the same liver segments in different members of the same family has never been described in literature. Herein we report the first two consecutive laparoscopic caudate lobectomy for familiar giant LH in… Show more
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