Relaparotomy after emergency surgical interventions
Myshkin, K.I.; Bluvshteĭn, G.A.; Lopatinskiĭ, I.N.
Khirurgiia 12: 39-42
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-1207 PMID: 2625895 Document Number: 339492
Relaparotomy was conducted 251 times on 210 emergency surgical patients. Diffuse and localized circumscribed peritonitis were the main causes of relaparotomy (70.5%). The level of serum cortisol was tested by the radioisotope method in a group of patients before and after relaparotomy. Operations conducted for the second time 6-7 days after the first operation were undertaken in adrenal insufficiency. Radical relaparotomy produced the best results.