The emergency surgical treatment of hemoperitoneum due to the spontaneous rupture of a hepatocarcinoma in a cirrhotic liver
Di Martino, G.
Annali Italiani di Chirurgia 64(1): 83
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-469X PMID: 8392305 Document Number: 420646
A case of intraperitoneal hemorrhage from rupture of a unknown hepatocarcinoma on a cirrhotic liver treated in emergency is reported. Owing to the severity of the general conditions of the aging patient the diagnostic was not higher than of probability. The surgical treatment was an atypical wedge resection, that proved efficacious for the surgical recovery, and perhaps also for a limited oncologic treatment in consideration of the underlying cirrhosis.