OUTCOME OF SURGERY OF LIVER HEMANGIOMA AT VIETDUC UNIVERISTY HOSPITAL

Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng1,, Nguyễn Khắc Đức1,2
1 Hanoi Medical University
2 Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital

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Objectives: To describe the clinical, paraclinical and surgical results of liver hemangiomas at Vietduc University Hospital. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional study on 69 patients diagnosed with large liver hemangiomas with indications for surgery from January 2015 to December 2020 at the Vietduc University Hospital. Results and conclusions: In 69 patients with liver hemangiomas, 85.5% were admitted to hospital due to abdominal pain, on ultrasound, 78.58% had hyperechoic images after the tumor, on computed tomography before injection. Contrast is mainly a homogenous decrease in density (96.9%), there is no case of increase in density before injection. After treatment, most of the patients improved their symptoms (94.2%), of which 82.6% were symptom free and 11.6% had improvement. There were 91% with good postoperative results, including cases with no complications or grade I complications requiring only post-operative care and medical treatment.

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