Possibilities of surgical treatment of injuries of the main veins

Abstract

Surgical treatment of damage to the hollow and portal veins and their main tributaries is a little-studied and urgent problem of emergency vascular surgery. Statistical data on the frequency of damage to the largest veins are contradictory. During the Great Patriotic War, the frequency of isolated venous wounds was 13.7% of all vascular injuries [5], 0.3% of those killed on the battlefield died from bleeding from the iliac veins [4]. In peacetime, 8% of victims with penetrating abdominal wounds had damage to the vena cava or iliac veins [14].