Open AccessBenign Liver Cell Adenoma Associated With Use of Oral Contraceptive Agents
Author(s) -
Sora Baek,
Charles E. Sloane,
Saul C. Futterman
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-197603000-00003
Subject(s) - medicine , adenoma , medline , dermatology , gynecology , general surgery , political science , law
A benign hepatic adenoma in a young woman taking oral contraceptives for 7 years is reported. The diagnosis must be suspected in any young woman taking oral contraceptive agents who develop signs and symptoms of acute cholecystitis with hepatomegaly or mass, or when signs and symptoms of non-traumatic intraabdominal hemorrhage are present. Rupture of the tumor is a life-threatening complication. Treatment should be either hepatic lobectomy or wide local resection.