Two weeks delayed bleeding in blunt liver injury: case report and review of the literature

Most cases of blunt hepatic trauma are treated nowadays non-operatively. This type of conservative treatment has resulted in increased complication rate. Delayed complications occur in cases that didn't require surgical intervention during the first 24 hours. The most common late complication i...

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Autores principales: Kaplan, Uri, Hatoum, Oshama A, Chulsky, Alexander, Menzal, Hussam, Kopelman, Doron
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21513531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-14
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author Kaplan, Uri
Hatoum, Oshama A
Chulsky, Alexander
Menzal, Hussam
Kopelman, Doron
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description Most cases of blunt hepatic trauma are treated nowadays non-operatively. This type of conservative treatment has resulted in increased complication rate. Delayed complications occur in cases that didn't require surgical intervention during the first 24 hours. The most common late complication is hemorrhage. We report a case of two weeks delayed hemorrhage after blunt hepatic trauma in an adult. We describe the diagnostic procedures, the surgical treatment and review the relevant literature.
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spelling pubmed-30971482011-05-19 Two weeks delayed bleeding in blunt liver injury: case report and review of the literature Kaplan, Uri Hatoum, Oshama A Chulsky, Alexander Menzal, Hussam Kopelman, Doron World J Emerg Surg Review Most cases of blunt hepatic trauma are treated nowadays non-operatively. This type of conservative treatment has resulted in increased complication rate. Delayed complications occur in cases that didn't require surgical intervention during the first 24 hours. The most common late complication is hemorrhage. We report a case of two weeks delayed hemorrhage after blunt hepatic trauma in an adult. We describe the diagnostic procedures, the surgical treatment and review the relevant literature. BioMed Central 2011-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3097148/ /pubmed/21513531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-14 Text en Copyright ©2011 Kaplan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kaplan, Uri
Hatoum, Oshama A
Chulsky, Alexander
Menzal, Hussam
Kopelman, Doron
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title_short Two weeks delayed bleeding in blunt liver injury: case report and review of the literature
title_sort two weeks delayed bleeding in blunt liver injury: case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21513531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-6-14
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