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A 20 year-old male sustains a sword wound. During initial exploration, you identify a transected inferior vena cava, lacerated suprapancreatic portal vein and a near complete transection of both the right kidney and the pancreatic head. The patient’s physiology defines hostile.
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Ball, C.G., Dixon, E. (2018). Pancreas Trauma Hemorrhage: So Much Trouble from this Small Organ. In: Ball, C., Dixon, E. (eds) Treatment of Ongoing Hemorrhage. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63495-1_13
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