Surgical management of severe pediatric blunt abdominal trauma

Adilson V B Vidal; Adilson J M de Oliveira; Thais N Rossi; Bruna C N de Carvalho; Melissa P F Volpiane; Max C Scholobach; Fabio L Peterlini; Rhuann Pontes Dos Santos Silva; Felipe Câncio Nascimento; Edna E Gouveia

doi:10.1002/ccr3.6797

Surgical management of severe pediatric blunt abdominal trauma

Clin Case Rep. 2023 Jan 16;11(1):e6797. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.6797. eCollection 2023 Jan.

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Sugery Department Hospital Geral de Pedreiras São Paulo Brazil.
² Neuroscience Center, Clínica Girassol Luanda Angola.
³ Catholic University of Pernambuco Recife Brazil.
⁴ State University of Ponta Grossa Paraná Brazil.
⁵ American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine St. Maarten Netherlands Antilles.

Abstract

A 3-year-old male patient was brought to the Emergency Department with a traumatic blunt lesion in the liver. Due to hemodynamic instability and a severe lesion of a grade IV liver injury shown on the CT, the chosen conduct was to perform a hepatorrhaphy with oxidized cellulose.

Keywords: abdominal injuries; liver surgery; liver trauma; pediatric surgery.

Publication types

Case Reports