[Liver rupture after prolonged use of contraceptive]

Since several years benign liver tumours have been observed as complication of a long-term intake of hormonal contraceptives. Apart from a clinical unconspicuousness uncharacteristic complaints of the epigastrium up to the picture of the acute abdomen due to rupture of the tumour rich in vessels may be appear. A preoperative diagnosis is only rarely successful, and only the laparotomy brings the final diagnostic clarification.