1. Giant hepatocellular adenoma as cause of severe abdominal pain: a case report
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F Cannizzaro, Giuseppa Graceffa, Mario Adelfio Latteri, Oriana Ciacio, Sergio Li Petri, Calogero Cipolla, Luigi Sandonato, Tommaso Vincenzo Bartolotta, SANDONATO L, CIPOLLA C, GRACEFFA G, BARTOLOTTA TV, LI PETRI S, CIACIO O, CANNIZZARO F, and LATTERI M
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Abdominal pain ,Pathology ,oral contraceptive agent EMTREE medical terms: abdominal pain ,anamnesi ,lcsh:Medicine ,computer assisted tomography ,aspartate aminotransferase ,Surgical oncology ,nuclear magnetic resonance imaging ,Medicine(all) ,oral contraception ,adult ,article ,General Medicine ,Abdominal quadrants ,female ,priority journal ,histopathology ,contrast enhancement ,disease severity ,medicine.symptom ,EMTREE drug terms: alanine aminotransferase ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Oral contraceptive pill ,contrast medium ,medicine ,diffusion weighted imaging ,case report ,follow up ,human ,Acute pain ,liver biopsy ,drug use ,liver lobectomy ,business.industry ,General surgery ,Public health ,lcsh:R ,echography ,Hepatocellular adenoma ,liver angiography ,medicine.disease ,tumor bleeding ,human tissue ,clinical feature ,nausea and vomiting ,business ,aspartate aminotransferase blood level ,liver adenoma ,alanine aminotransferase blood level - Abstract
The authors describe the case of a large hepatocellular adenoma diagnosed in a 30-year old woman who came to us complaining of acute pain in the upper abdominal quadrants. The patient had been taking an oral contraceptive pill for the last ten years. We present the clinical features, the diagnostic work-up and the treatment prescribed.
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- 2007