Diffuse trauma of the right lobe of the liver successfully treated without resection. Case report

The victim of a motorcycle frontal crash was treated in a high reference teaching hospital for disruption of the right lobe of the liver (IV grade AAST/Moore). Primary packing, secondary biloma and abscess treatment including papillotomy and biliary stent, led, after 8 months, to cicatrisation of a damaged liver parenchyma. In conclusion, the authors stress that such injuries should be treated in highest level reference centres where all modern noninvasive interventional modalities are available, and that surgical resection is not always the operation of best choice.