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Title: Postoperative adhesions and small bowel obstruction - New insights
Authors: Deen, K.I.
Keywords: Postoperative Complications
Tissue Adhesions
Intestine, Small-surgery
Intestinal Obstruction-Surgery
Issue Date: 2000
Publisher: College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka
Citation: The Sri Lanka Journal of Surgery. 2000; 18(1): pp.6-9
Abstract: Patients having surgical procedures below the level of the transverse colon are at risk of adhesion formation. Small bowel obstruction is the commonest presenting feature of adhesions, is estimated that up to 10 percent of patients undergoing laparotomy will require re-operation for adhesions in a life time. Economic implications, the nature of adhesions formation and its aetiology to formulate methods of prevention is discussed in the article
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1438
ISSN: 1391-491X (Print)
2279-2201(Online)
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