[Emergency operations in complicated forms of cancer of the colon]

Direct outcomes of 215 urgent operations for complicated forms of carcinoma of the colon were analyzed. Operations for acute ileus were performed in 147 patients, for perforation of the bowel and peritonitis in 45 patients, for profuse intestinal bleedings in 23 patients. The lethality after the urgent operations was 32.5%. Operations with the removal of the primary tumor give better direct and remote results.