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Small bowel obstruction

Surgical Endoscopy, 2000
This is a retrospective review of our experience using a laparoscopic approach in the treatment of acute and chronic small bowel obstruction (SBO).Of 136 patients hospitalized in our institutions for acute (94 cases: 69.1%) and chronic (42 cases: 30.8%) SBO, from January 1994 to March 1998, 63 (46.3%) were approached laparoscopically.
F, Agresta, A, Piazza, I, Michelet, N, Bedin, C A, Sartori   +4 more
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Small Bowel Conditions: Small Bowel Obstruction

2020
Small bowel obstruction is a commonly seen pathology in the realm of general surgery, with more than 300,000 patients being hospitalized each year in the United States for operations exclusively to relieve obstructing adhesions. Approximately 20% of surgical admissions for an “acute abdomen” are due to a small bowel obstruction, and as such it is ...
James P. Taylor, Jonathan E. Efron
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Laparoscopic approach to small bowel obstruction

Seminars in Laparoscopic Surgery, 2002
Historically, laparotomy and open adhesiolysis have been the treatment of choice for patients requiring surgery with small bowel obstruction (SBO), although laparotomy itself is an independent risk factor for bowel obstruction. Laparoscopy is known to create fewer intra-abdominal adhesions than open laparotomy.
C P, Fischer, Deb, Doherty
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Small-Bowel Obstruction

Southern Medical Journal, 1976
A retrospective review of experience with small-bowel obstruction at the University Hospital in Birmingham for a ten-year period (January 1963 through December 1972) revealed 465 episodes of obstruction in 415 patients. The mortality was 4% in obstruction due to adhesions, and 28% in obstruction caused by carcinoma; overall mortality was 8%.
H L, Laws, J S, Aldrete
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Small Bowel Obstruction

AACN Advanced Critical Care, 2010
Strategies for the management of small bowel obstructions have changed significantly over the years. Nonoperative medical management has become the mainstay of treatment of many small bowel obstructions. However, the key to the management of small bowel obstructions is identifying those patients who need surgical intervention.
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Small Bowel Obstructions in the Newborn

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1976
With current knowledge and skill, any infant with duodenal, jejunal, or ileal obstruction should be diagnosed soon after birth. In the absence of other congenital defects or complications, surgical correction should be successful in the vast majority of cases.
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Endometriosis and small bowel obstruction.

Acta chirurgica Belgica, 1982
Pelvic endometriosis, a common disease of the female genital tract, may also affect the bowel, especially the rectosigmoid colon. Involvement of the small intestine occurs very infrequently. A case of small bowel obstruction caused by ileal endometriosis is reported. Correct preoperative diagnosis is very difficult to achieve.
De Waele, Boudewijn, Marichal, Miriam, Swaenepoel, L, Volckaert, M   +3 more
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Small Bowel Obstruction

Critical Reviews in Computed Tomography, 2003
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Assessing outcomes in laparoscopic vs open surgical management of adhesive small bowel obstruction

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques, 2022
Xavier Pereira, Diego Laurentino Lima, Gustavo Romero-Vélez   +2 more
exaly  

Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction and the six w’s: Who, How, Why, When, What, and Where to diagnose and operate?

Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, 2021
Salomone Di Saverio, Mauro Podda
exaly