Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
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The authors discuss the surgical strategies in the management of complex penetrating hepatic lesions through liver balloon tamponade. ⋯ Transfixing hepatic lesions are usually difficult to manage and carry high morbidity and mortality rates. The use of intrahepatic balloon tamponade can be useful as a therapeutic tool, but not rid of complications, and for that reason it has specific and selected indications.