LATE BILIARY STENOSIS AFTER CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT OF TRAUMATIC LIVER RUPTURE: CASE REPORT

An extensive liver rupture developed in a 50-year-old woman after she received severe blunt injuries in a criminal assault. Nonsurgical management of the liver injury led to recovery of the patient despite a serious blood loss and multiorgan failure. However, 3 months after the injury a complete lef...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The journal of trauma 1994-05, Vol.36 (5), p.740-742
Hauptverfasser:	Halme, Leena, Orko, Riitta, Tierala, Esko, Höckerstedt, Krister
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aneurysm, False - diagnostic imaging Aneurysm, False - etiology Biological and medical sciences Cholestasis - diagnosis Cholestasis - etiology Constriction, Pathologic Dilatation, Pathologic Female Hepatic Artery - diagnostic imaging Humans Injuries of the abdomen. Foreign bodies of the digestive system Liver - injuries Medical sciences Middle Aged Radiography Rupture Time Factors Traumas. Diseases due to physical agents Wounds, Nonpenetrating - complications Wounds, Nonpenetrating - therapy
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Zusammenfassung:	An extensive liver rupture developed in a 50-year-old woman after she received severe blunt injuries in a criminal assault. Nonsurgical management of the liver injury led to recovery of the patient despite a serious blood loss and multiorgan failure. However, 3 months after the injury a complete left bile duct stenosis with liver dysfunction and two hepatic artery pseudoaneurysms were found. Biliodigestive bypass restored normal liver function.
ISSN:	0022-5282 1529-8809
DOI:	10.1097/00005373-199405000-00025