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  • Title: [Liver rupture after prolonged use of contraceptive].
    Author: Böttger G, Schiebold KD, Uhlmann B, Rockel A.
    Journal: Z Gesamte Inn Med; 1981 Feb 01; 36(3):suppl 226-7. PubMed ID: 7222847.
    Abstract:
    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.
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