[Acute complications of colorectal cancer]

Surgery was applied to 152 cases for colorectal carcinoma at the Surgical Department of Friedrichshain Hospital through a period of two years (1986/1987). Emergency laparotomy had to be performed on 31 patients (20 per cent) for acute complications, with colonic ileus being the most common problem. Primary lethality amounted to 25.8 per cent.