Postoperative complications and mortality in acute intestinal obstruction

Tishinskaia, Z.V.

Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 116(5): 45-48

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625
PMID: 951910
Document Number: 97910
496 case reports of patients operated upon for various kinds of intestinal obstruction were analysed. Complications were studied in 202 (40.6%) patients. 93 patients died (19.7%). Peritonitis remains to be the main cause of death postoperatively (49.5 per cent to all lethal issues).

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