Langenbuch records a case in which he
successfully removed the greater portion of the left lobe of a
woman of thirty. The lobe had been extensively deformed by tight
lacing, and caused serious inconvenience. There was considerable
hemorrhage, but the vessels were secured, and the woman made a
good recovery. McWhinnie, in The Lancet, records a case of
dislodgment of an enlarged liver from tight lacing. Terrilon
mentions an instance in which a portion of the liver was removed
by ligature after celiotomy. The ligature was removed in seven
days, and the sphacelated portion of the liver came off with it.
A cicatrix was completed at the end of six weeks, and the
patient, a woman of fifty-three, made an excellent recovery.
Bastianelli discusses those cases in which portions of the liver,
having been constricted from the general body of the organ and
remaining attached by a pedicle, give rise to movable tumors of
the abdomen. He records such a case in a woman of thirty-seven
who had five children. A piece of liver weighing 500 grams was
removed, and with it the gall-bladder, and the patient made an
uninterrupted recovery. Tricomi reports a case in which it was
found necessary to remove the left lobe of the liver.
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