[Liver resection in children. Experience in 10 cases]

The authors report their experience with ten major hepatic resections; six on the right lobe and four on the left. Six of the resected masses were hepatoblastomas, two were hamartomas, was a hemangioma, and the last one a pheochromocytoma of the right adrenal gland with invasion to the liver next from the affected site. The four patients with major hepatic resection of the left lobe are at present alive, ranging from two months to two years after surgery. Of the six patients with major resection of the right lobe, three died during surgery, another one died late post-operatively and one died a year after surgery from generalized metastasis of an hepatoblastoma. The sixth patient is alive with no complications, four months after surgery. The authors used two types of hepatic resections and they make some recommendations for achieving better results in this type of operation.