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Expanding the donor pool: Safe transplantation of a cadaveric liver allograft with a 10cm cavernous hemangioma – A case report
✍ Scribed by Federico N. Aucejo; Werner Andrade Ortiz; Dympna Kelly; Charles Winans; David Vogt; Bijan Eghtesad; John J. Fung; Charles M. Miller
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.20766
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✦ Synopsis
The use of extended criteria donors for liver transplantation has become a necessity in an era of donor organ scarcity. 1 Although the use of liver allografts with hemangiomas undergoing backtable resection have been described, we report the first transplantation of a deceased donor liver with a giant hemangioma not undergoing resection.
Discussion
Cavernous hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors of the liver, with an incidence of up to 7% in