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ANGIOMYOLIPOMA OF THE LIVER
Author(s) -
Schwartz P.,
Travers P.,
Hunt D. R.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1989.tb07642.x
Subject(s) - medicine , angiomyolipoma , radiology , ultrasonography , angiography , biopsy , resection , certainty , surgery , kidney , philosophy , epistemology
Hepatic angiomyolipoma is a rare tumour of the liver. Its behaviour is benign and this paper reports the first case described in Australia. A review of the literature suggests that the use of ultrasonography, computerized tomography and angiography should enable pre‐operative diagnosis to be made with relative certainty, yet the difficulties with histological diagnosis, particularly on needle biopsy, may necessitate resection.