[Postoperative adhesive intestinal obstruction]

The clinico-experimental investigations including the treatment of 1131 patients with postoperative adhesive ileus enabled the conclusion to be drawn that there are various causes of the development of the intraperitoneal adhesive process and ileus but finally they all come to a traumatic or bacterial lesion of the peritoneal lining. The authors failed to observe a causeless (so called "pathological") formation of adhesions. The causes of the development of adhesive ileus were always associated with the main pathological processes in the abdominal cavity and the character of the operation.