[The use of laparoscopy in the diagnosis of a traumatic lesion of the spleen].

The results of laparoscopic diagnosis of splenic rupture in the closed abdominal trauma in 80 injured persons were analyzed. A splenic damage was excluded in 38 patients. In 12 of them hematoma, serohemorrhagic exudate, intestinal paresis were revealed. One patient with duodenal rupture was operated on, and in one more patient the idle laparotomy was conducted. Five patients died. According to the laparoscopic data a splenic rupture was diagnosed in 35 injured persons. Diagnostic failure was conceded in one patient, in whom a hepatic rupture was revealed while the laparoscopy conduction. A successful conservative treatment was conducted in three patients for subcapsular splenic hematoma. Relaparotomy conduction was needed in 3 patients. Three patients died: two of them--due to severe polytrauma and one--due to bronchopneumonia. One else patient died, which was hospitalized with severe polytrauma. In one patient bronchospasm have occurred.