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  • Title: [Various types of small intestine occlusion. Case contribution].
    Author: Finocchiaro GB, Perovani-Vicari P, Togna A, Mazza S, Galimberti GB.
    Journal: Minerva Chir; 1992 Dec; 47(23-24):1783-7. PubMed ID: 1289750.
    Abstract:
    The Authors examine retrospectively all the cases of obstruction of the small bowel operated at the surgical department of the Verbania Hospital in the last twenty years. The records of 341 cases, 1.4% of the total amount of the surgical operations carried out in the same space of time, were retrospectively reviewed. The Authors consider the data relating to sex, age, interval between hospitalization and operation, surgical treatment, possible previous operations, post-operative stay in hospital and complications. Having found a rate of complications significantly higher in those cases of obstruction that have required the resection of one or more intestinal loops (in all 69 cases, among them 50 cases belong to the group of the adhesions and of the strangulation), the Authors conclude by underlining the importance of recognizing and treating in time the cases where there is an irreversible vascular suffering of the bowel.
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