title: [Very severe hepatic trauma in childhood. The report of two cases with minimally invasive treatment].
abstract: Liver trauma in children is a pathology that has an increasing incidence mainly due to the implications of growing children in hazardous games and sports adventure, and the frequent car accidents. There has been a shift of management in haemodynamically stable patients towards non-operative management. This allows in most cases a patient's complete recovery without surgical aggression, preventing further damage derived from the handling of the injured liver. Herewith we report two cases of a 6 and 4 year old boys who suffered a very severe traumatic rupture of the liver. They were operated through minimally invasive surgical procedures, achieving complete resolution of the serious damages.
authors.affiliation: Cirugía Pediátrica, Hospital Universitario Materno-lnfantil de Canarias, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. raimundobeltra@gmail.com
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Beltrà Picó
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guindos Rúa
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hernández Castelló
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male