Analysis of surgical treatment of liver hemangiomas

Objective. Development of criteria for optimal tactics of surgical treatment of liver hemangiomas of various sizes and localizations. Materials and methods. A retrospective analysis of 247 patients with hepatic hemangiomas observed on an outpatient basis and in a hospital was carried out; 59 of them (23.89 %) were operated including 12 men and 47 women over the period of 19992019. Liver resection with hemangioma was performed in 30 patients, hemangioma enucleation in 21, X-ray endovascular occlusion in 8 patients. The diagnosis was established on the basis of ultrasound of the abdominal organs, CT and MRI with contrast as well as angiographic research methods. Results. The postoperative complications developed in 4 (6.78 %) cases: reactive pleurisy was detected in 2 patients after the right-sided hemihepatectomy, hematomas in the resection zone of segments of the right lobe of the liver with a tumor were diagnosed in 2 patients. All complications were eliminated by conservative measures. There were no lethal outcomes. Conclusions. Surgical treatment of patients with hemangiomas includes resection of the liver with a tumor, enucleation of the hemangioma, and various types of local destruction. In order to reduce the blood circulation of the tumor and decrease the risk of intraoperative blood loss, the ECA of the branches of the hepatic artery was indicated. A comparative analysis of the results of treatment of patients with liver hemangiomas using various methods of surgical interventions made it possible to develop optimal surgical tactics, a system of intra- and perioperative safety in this category of patients.