[Controlled digital closure in liver resection]

The work generalizes the experience in the treatment of patients with local diseases of the liver at the hospitals of the Samara Region in 1971-1988. During this period 101 anatomical resections of the liver in 100 patients were performed. The operations were conducted by two technical procedures: the traditional method and the method of controlled digitoclasia. Twenty-six patients were operated on by the traditional methods, who had a 16% mortality rate. The method of controlled digitoclasia was applied in 74 patients with 5.2% mortality. The article describes the suggested method of anatomical resection of the liver in detail and evaluates its clinical approbation with that of the traditional methods.