[Complicated forms of gastrointestinal cancer in emergency surgery]

The authors give the definition of the term "complicated form" and classify the complications of gastro-intestinal carcinomas. The results of the treatment of 225 patients with complications of gastro-intestinal carcinomas are analyzed, 142 of them being subjected to urgent surgery. Complete occlusion ileus, peritonitis and continuous hemorrhage were considered by the authors to be indications for urgent operations.