Penetrating XXXX : a report on 172 cases.

@entity1 @entity548 @entity6177 @entity86 @entity99 @entity130
During the 4-year military conflict in Croatia, we treated operatively 7,928 casualties. Of those casualties, 172 (2.2%) had penetrating @entity99 , mostly sustained by explosive devices. Of these injuries, 90.7% were associated with the @entity130 of other abdominal and extra-abdominal organs. Seventy-five percent of injuries belonged to grades III and IV on the @entity99 Scale. The main method of treatment was debridement with ligation of severed vessels and bile ducts. In 8.1% of cases with detrimental @entity548 , we used liver packing. Fifty percent of these @entity1 have survived but with a high incidence of septic complications. This method was proven salutary in the most detrimental injuries that could not be treated in any other way. @entity86 and @entity6177 were complications that needed surgical and ultrasound-guided aspiration, respectively. Numerous heavy injuries of the liver combined with associated @entity130 of other vital organs are responsible for the high mortality rate of 28.5%.
