“…Spontaneous rupture of the liver is nearly always associated with other disease processes such as hepatoma, secondary liver carcinoma, haemangioma, periarteritis nodosa or infectious diseases (Rademaker, 1943;Chaitwood, 1953;Hill et al, 1958;Dwonczyk et al, 1959;Okezie and De Angelis, 1973;Almersjo et al, 1975). A few cases have occurred during pregnancy and in infants (Bradley and Garrett, 1936;Kramish et al, 1957;Hakim-Elahi, 1965), and rupture may occur after minimal trauma in an apparently healthy liver (Hill et al, 1958).…”