[Benign tumors of the liver].

Benign tumours of the liver, being rare compared to malignant forms, constitute a big diagnostic and therapeutic problem to prove their benignity and the relation between the patients' symptoms and their existence. During 1983-91, we had the chance to study ten (10) patients with benign liver tumour-six (6) women and four (4) men-with a mean age of 51 years, concerning 5 hemangiomas, one hepatic adenoma and 4 focal nodular hyperplasia. Two of the hemangiomas coexisted with metastatic liver tumours.

[Current status of the treatment of perforated duodenal ulcer].

A European study involving 15 major centres shows that the surgical treatment of a perforated duodenal ulcer depends closely upon the underlying condition and the operative risk. The latter is determined on the basis of the age of the subject, the time since the perforation, and the chronicity of the ulcer as well as the possible concomitant existence of severe medical pathology. In the optimal situation, preference is given to suture of the perforation and supraselective vagotomy.