title: [Treatment of serious hepatic lacerations with Ton That Tung's technique].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Serious hepatic lacerations are associated with an elevated mortality which depends on the consequent haemorrhage. The hepatic resection in emergency, according to Ton That Tung, seems to be the more appropriate operation for the rapidity of execution and the low mortality associated (11% out of 1000 operations).
  
  
  METHODS
  According to Ton That Tung' technique, 12 operations of hepatic lobe and segment resections were executed after trauma caused by road accidents, firearm lesions, sidearm lesions and bleeding neoplasms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 12 patients operated on, 9 healed (75%) and 3 died (25%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The high mortality in the hepatic resections depends on the technique used. The anatomic resection, according to Bismuth, has an operative time longer than the time described by Ton That Tung, time that in emergency is important because the mortality depends not only from the blood lost, but, also the time in which the blood is lost. Hepatic resection according to Ton That Tung is the gold standard for the treatment of serious lacerations and hepatic bleeding neoplasms.
authors.affiliation: P. S. dell'Università di Catania.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vadalà
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Evola
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vainella
authors.forename: F R
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Evola
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sangani
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vadalà
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000601:surgery; D018281:Cholangiocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000601:surgery; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot