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YEAR: 1977

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Liver tumors and oral contraceptives. [Lebertumor und Ovulationshemmer.]

AUTHORS

KAMBER J; MICHOT F; VILLIGER KJ

SOURCE

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift 107(1):17-22. 1977.

ABSTRACT

A 33-year-old woman presenting with signs of chronic cholecystitis and cholelithiasis was laparotomized, and a 5

cm tumor was found and removed from the right lobe of the liver. It was a focal nodular hyperplasia (a hamartoma).

At the age of 20 the patient had been treated by radiation and chemotherapy for Stage 1 Hodgkin's disease. She had

taken oral contraceptives (OCs; Eugynon) for 2 years. In the literature about 70 cases of chiefly benign liver tumors

have been reported in women taking OCs. More than 1/3 of these cases came to light because of life-threatening

intraabdominal bleeding due to rupture of the tumor. A causative relationship between hepatic tumors and the use of

OCs is suggested, but there is at present no conclusive evidence to support this connection.(AUTHORS',

MODIFIED) (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 34-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Liver tumors and oral contraceptives. [Lebertumor und

Ovulationshemmer.]", is(are) KAMBER J; MICHOT F; VILLIGER KJ. The source of this article is "Schweizerische

Medizinische Wochenschrift 107(1):17-22. 1977.". This article was published in 1977 in German; English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 34-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 30034

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