A Case of Penetrating Stab Wound of the Abdomen

A young Burmese female, aged 22 years, was ̂ r0 a into the Rangoon General Hospital, suffering ir?wjtb penetrating stab wound in the epigastric region Ungt profuse bleeding and signs of internal telf She was taken to the operating theatre immedia and a left paramedian incision was made in the part of the abdomen; the abdomen was found t0.jjjg full of blood which was mopped out. On re*raCt)0n the costal arch upwards, it was found that the we. gger (a knife) had passed through the liver into the/? 0f sac, and on its way had severed a small subdivisj^| > the right gastric branch of the coeliac axis. The bie^f ing points were caught and ligatured. Two pieC? Dd omentum were cut away and applied over the ej superiorly and inferiorly, and the ligatures through and through these pieces of omentum aDCLrdS liver substance. The patient was treated in the for shock on the usual lines and she made an uneve