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The team identified 32,583 hospitalizations for small bowel obstructions in 1997. The average age of the patients was 63 years, 54% were female, and 69% were white. Only 43% had no other ...
Commentary on a study on surgical outcomes for small bowel obstruction published April 2006 in the Annals of Surgery.
Medical Malpractice in the Management of Small Bowel Obstruction: A 33-Year Review of Case Law . Choudhry AJ, Haddad NN, Rivera M, et al Surgery. 2016;160:1017-1027
Methods/Design This is a multicenter, prospective, open label, randomized, controlled trial comparing laparoscopic adhesiolysis to open surgery in patients with computed-tomography diagnosed ...
In acute intestinal obstruction, the clinician must characterize the level of emergency of the case and distinguish between acute small bowel and acute colonic obstruction. [ 19 ]
Methods: We enrolled 19 consecutive patients with small bowel obstruction due to metastatic gastric (n = 15) or colorectal cancer (n = 2), or primary small bowel carcinoma (n = 2), in whom ...
The aim of a recent study published in JAMA Surgery [] was to examine the risk for recurrent adhesive small bowel obstruction after either initial operative intervention or initial observation ...
Incarcerated hernia was the most common cause of small-bowel obstruction in both groups. However, the most common cause of large-bowel obstruction changed dramatically between the 2 periods: One ...
Bowel obstruction or pseudo-obstruction can ... in the case of incomplete obstruction of the small intestine is the method ... and for each group of bowel obstruction (surgery, endoscopy ...
Bowel Obstruction . The most common cause of bowel obstruction in pregnancy is adhesions secondary to prior surgery or illness (Figure 4). [38,39] In one study, 77% of the 66 cases presented with ...