title: Liver injuries: a five-year study at Surat-thani Hospital.
abstract: Most liver injuries can usually be handled by simple technique. In this study, 70 per cent of the cases needed only simple suture. There were 10 cases (16.67%) in which no surgical procedures were required at all, because the bleeding had stopped prior to surgery. Complications and mortality varied according to the type of liver injury, the involved organ injury and the most important factor, shock prior to and during surgery. This study reports not only the type of liver injury, causes, treatment, complications and mortality rate but it also compiles the surgical techniques used in managing liver injury according to severity.
authors.affiliation: Surat-thani Hospital, Thailand.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kananurak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D013785:Thailand; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy