Treatment of six hepatic XXXX .

@entity1 @entity1143 @entity146 @entity1578 @entity397 @entity439 @entity1188 @entity2849 @entity438
Hepatic @entity438 are rare lesions but of significant clinical importance because @entity397 is associated with elevated mortality. Although diagnosis using CT scanning and, more importantly, angiography has been well defined, the therapeutic choices are less clear. We retrospectively selected @entity1 from 1985 to 2000 who were treated with either traditional surgical or percutaneous techniques. In total we treated six @entity1 , four males and two females. This represents 17.6% of 34 @entity1 treated by us for splanchnic @entity438 . The treatment was surgical in two cases (33.3%) and percutaneous in four cases (66.6%). All lesions were successfully treated with exclusion/ablation of the @entity439 . Mortality was nil; in one of the surgical cases we reported a transient @entity1578 and in the endovascular group, one right @entity1143 , one small @entity1188 , and one @entity2849 . The first therapeutic strategy to be taken into consideration is always the percutaneous approach. However, surgery still has a role in those cases where the lesion cannot be repaired percutaneously. Based on our own experience (good results, no mortality, and few complications) and in accordance with the literature, it is clear that an @entity146 approach is warranted in those @entity1 .
