Table 1. Summary of male patients with hepatic adenomas reported in the literature.

Reference	Date	Total	Males	Solitary vs multiple	Steroic use	Glycogen storage disease	Diameter	Comment
Wilkens et al. 11	2001	10	2	Solitary	NS	NS	6 cm 7.5 cm
Terkivatan et al. 12	2001	12	2	Solitary	Yes	No	NS	Presented with rupture
Mamada 9	2001	1	1	Solitary	No	No	4.5 cm	Focal lesional haemorrhage
Ichikawa et al. 13	2000	25	4	Solitary	No	No	NS
Weiman et al. 7	1997	44	9	NS	NS	NS	NS
Nagorney 3	1995	24	2	NS	NS	NS	NS
Arrive et al. 16	1994	29	2	Solitary	NS	NS	NS
Foster and Berman 18	1994	5	1	Multiple	Yes	NS	NS	Developed HCC
Paulson et al. 6	1994	14	3	Solitary	No	Yes	NS
Leese et al. 8	1988	18	3	Solitary	No	No	14 cm 13 cm 2 cm
		6	5	Multiple	No	Yes	NS	Also ref. 18
Sale and Lerner 4	1977	1	1	Multiple	Yes	No	NS
Foster and Berman 19	1977	37	2	Solitary	No	No	15 cm 23 cm	Presented with rupture
			1	Multiple	No	No	4 cm
Howell et al. 5	1976	8	6	Multiple	No	Yes	NS

NS, not stated.