[Injuries of the inferior vena cava--prerequisites of successful treatment]

The authors submit a report on the successful treatment of an uncommon injury--a blunt injury of the infrahepatic portion of the vena cava inferior which was part of a multiple injury. In the conclusion the authors formulate general prerequisites of a successful solution of similar injuries and express the demand that as reserve strategic, tactical and technical knowledge should be assembled on the above problem by a large number of surgeons.