background : the liver which is a vascular organ can easily be lacerated or crushed, depending on the severity of trauma. case report: a 55 year-old lady who fell down was taken to a hospital within one hour and died two hours post-trauma. an autopsy revealed rupture a large sub capsular vascular lesion situated on the right lobe of liver with hemoperitoneum. there was a deep contusion on the a...

A 26-year-old shepherd man was admitted to the emergency department in June 2020 after ground current effect of lightning strike. With severity trauma, patient fell and then fainted. Since trauma not known exactly, there an open wound head, had dyspnea elevated liver function tests, cranial, thorax abdominal computed tomography (CT) were performed. On CT scan, approximately 7-cm-in length grade...

We report a 5-year-old girl who presented with post traumatic biliary leakage that failed to respond to conservative management for two weeks. Surgical exploration in the third week revealed a partially healed 5 cm long hepatic laceration in the right lobe of the liver. Bile was found leaking through a rent in the major right intra-hepatic duct at the apex of liver laceration. A pedicled onlay ...

A 12-year-old boy presented with a large liver laceration after blunt abdominal trauma. He was treated nonoperatively and subsequently had bile peritonitis from a bile leak. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) visualized the bile duct injury and allowed decompression of the biliary tree with an endoscopically placed biliary stent. A drain also was placed over the laceration th...

A 5-year-old male with a history of frequent upper respiratory infections presented following a motor vehicle crash as an unrestrained, ejected passenger. CT of the chest and abdomen showed a small liver laceration, multifocal peripheral lung opacities ( fig. 1 , black arrows) and extensive lung laceration ( fig. 1 , white arrow). The patient required supplemental oxygen, but no surgical interv...