Liver trauma

Abstract

The liver is the largest organ in the abdomen, that makes it highly vulnerable in blunt and penetrating abdominal trauma. Development in the diagnosis and management of liver trauma was followed in recent years by decline in mortality, which is attributable to improved diagnostic methods, the principle of damage control surgery and the number of operated patients is shrinking. Currently, the treatment tends to be increasingly conservative, leaving surgery for specific cases. The aim of this study is describe and analize the current managment of this kind of trauma.