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Trauma to the liver, pancreas and porta hepatis: aggressive and conservative management

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Progress in Surgery of the Liver, Pancreas and Biliary System

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Abstract

Each country has its own pattern of trauma and its own problems, and injuries encountered in civil practice differ from those of war. The mortality of knife and low velocity bullet wounds remains low — probably less than 5%. The wounds produced by shotguns and high velocity bullets are more commonly fatal, while blunt injury still carries a mortality of about 20% and has done so for 20 years or more. Nevertheless, there have been a number of real advances in the transport, reception, investigation and management of liver injuries and there is evidence that those who reach hospital now are more severely injured than those treated 10 years ago [13].

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Little, J.M. (1988). Trauma to the liver, pancreas and porta hepatis: aggressive and conservative management. In: Bengmark, S. (eds) Progress in Surgery of the Liver, Pancreas and Biliary System. Developments in Surgery, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3349-1_7

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