Surgical treatment of benign liver tumors.

In their report, the authors evaluated in their report a group of patients with benign liver tumors. These patients were treated at the Surgical Department of the Teaching Hospital in Pilsen from 1999 up to 2004. The evaluation of the investigated groups compared of 43 sick patients was based on the prospect of their individual diagnoses, types of performed surgeries, the time period of their therapy and complications, which had occurred in the course of their surgical treatment. In the group of 24 patients with liver haemangioma, the authors recorded 14 patients with focal nodular hyperplasia, 3 patients with hepatocellular adenoma and 2 patients with other types of benign tumors--multilocular cystic lymphangioma of the liver and one hamartoma. Among these patients there was 0% mortality and 6.9% morbidity.