Abstract

INFANTE CARBONELL, María Cristina; LEYVA MOREIRA, Rolando; REYES CARDERO, Jorge  and  JIMENEZ CARRAZANA, Agustín. Tumores y quistes del hígado: tratamiento quirúrgico resectivo. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 1996, vol.35, n.2. ISSN 0034-7493.

Liver surgical resection treatment was applied to 68 patients in 3 clinical and surgical hospitals in Santiago de Cuba during 8 years (1987-1994). Tumours were malignant in 28 patients, benign in 27 and solitary cysts in the rest, with predominance of metastasic liver among the first and of cavernous hemangioma among the second ones. Primitive cancer was diagnosed in stages III and IV. 18 major resections were performed. 8 of them were right trisegmentectomies and the rest were minor and atypic resections, mainly ruled hepatic resections. Apparently, preoperative and postoperative complications were not connected with the magnitude of ablation. The subphrenic abscess had the highest incidence. Mortality was not related to the surgical technique used, but it was to the clinical stage of the malignant tumour and to the complications during and after the operation

Keywords : LIVER NEOPLASMS [surgery]; CYSTS [surgery]; LIVER DISEASES [surgery].