Dealing with hepatic artery traumas: A clinical literature review

Figure 1  One-hundred-year distribution of publications associated with hepatic artery trauma (PubMed).

Figure 2 Types of hepatic artery trauma. HA: Hepatic artery.

Figure 3 Schematic description of pathologies and procedures that can lead to hepatic artery injury in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery. HA: Hepatic artery; HPB: Hepatopancreatobiliary.

Figure 4 Algorithmic approach in the management of hepatic artery traumas. HA: Hepatic artery.

Figure 5 This picture shows the three-dimensional imaging of a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma lesion in the liver to reveal the relations of the lesion with vascular structures (taken from the private archive of Prof. Osman Nuri Dilek). HCC: Hepatocellular carcinoma.