Laparoscopic contribution to liver tumour diagnosis

From the about 3000 laparoscopies effected in our Department, 276 liver tumors (9.2%) were detected. Of these, 47 (17%) were primary adenocarcinomata (28), or adenocarcinomata grafted on cirrhosis (19). The large majority (195 cases: 70.6%) consisted of metastases of digestive (gastric, large intestine, pancreatic) or extradigestive (breast, ocular, genital) tumors. In 34 cases the tumor formations where represented by hydatic cysts, abscesses and hemangiomata (3 cases). The decisive contribution of peritonescopy to the diagnosis of the primary or the metastatic liver cancer as well as of other liver tumors is obvious.