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Laparoscopic management of acute small bowel obstruction
1Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Sydney Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Acute small bowel obstruction is commonly due to band adhesions. In the past it has had an overall mortality rate of up to 11% for elderly patients. In this paper we report three cases of small bowel obstruction, treated by laparoscopic division of the causative bands. All patients recovered rapidly and were discharged within 5 days of surgery.