[Liver injuries at the surgical clinic in Novi Sad from 1967-1978].

Experience gained from 80 ceses of liver injuries which have been under treatment at the Clinic of Surgical Diseases in Novi Sad in the period from 1967 to 1978 has been presented in this article. The number of liver injuries has amounted to 0,3% from a total of 23.300 injuried persons who have undergone the treatment at this clinic.

[Injuries of the extrahepatic biliary tract].

We represented two injuries of extrahepatic bile ducts upon our clinics materijal within last ten years. With the first case we had isolated rupture calculus gallbladder by closed abdominal injury. Secend case had opend abdominal injury and rupture of gallbladder and common bile duct.

Liver abscesses of biliary origin.

Liver abscesses represent a rare complication of inflammatory and calculous disease of the biliary system and are enhanced by tardy or delayed removal of the primary cause. Being the result of liver necrosis and depending on its extension they appear in polymorphous pattern and have the tendency to spread through the diaphragm into the chest. The differential diagnosis is not easy: from common cholangitis to sporadic necrosis of liver malignancy, suppurated hydatid cyst and other diseases.