[Characteristics of the clinical course of gunshot peritonitis]

The article gives characteristics of specific features of the clinical course of gunshot peritonitis due to specificity of the mechanism of the formation of gunshot wounds. Characteristic features of the clinical course of gunshot peritonitis are: high rate of the development of pathomorphological alterations in the abdominal cavity and severity of clinical manifestations. The multiple organ insufficiency in gunshot peritonitis at first is of primary character followed by the development of secondary organic insufficiency due to the progressing infectious process in the abdominal cavity.