[Trauma: when the liver "ruptures".... Our experience of 125 cases].
Liver and spleen are the organs most frequently involved in the blunt abdominal trauma. Prognosis is severe in those cases classified as IV or V according to the More score. The imaging techniques, particularly CT scan, offer today a possibility in the nonoperative management of a selected group of haemodynamically stable patients, therefore reducing the need of surgery. The authors' experience in 125 patients observed from 1983 to 1991 is reported.
Pasqualini
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Divisione di Chirurgia Generale e Pronto Soccorso, Ospedale San Martino, USL XIII, Genova.
Romairone
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E
Farina
P G
PG
Saitta
S
S
Noce
R
R
Galuppi
G
G
Nicora
E
E
D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries*; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D012421:Rupture; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery
Trauma: quando il fegato "si rompe".... Nostra esperienza su 125 casi.