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The injuries of the thorax are the second leading cause of death due to trauma in childhood. Approximately 5% of children hospitalized for an injury thus bring injury to the thorax. Unlike adults isolated injuries rarely occur, while the most common cause is trauma to the chest, usually blind due to an accident. Trauma remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood and the abdomen is the third most common anatomic region after the head and limbs that detect traumatic injuries. Of the total imports due to injury, 10% due to intra-abdominal organ injury. Ninety percent of these results from a closed mechanism of injury, usually due to car accidents, fall from heights or crash at the wheel of the bicycle and about 10% due to perforating mechanism of injury usually gun. The treatment of injuries of intra-abdominal organs in children has evolved in recent years and more than 95% of cases can be treated successfully conservatively without surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]