Band Adhesions in Relation to Previous Abdominal Surgery

Launched by GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY · Sep 6, 2018

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Postoperative intra-abdominal adhesions are a common cause of small bowel obstruction. The extent of adhesions has been assigned to the magnitude of previous surgery. In a county hospital, with a catchment population of 120 000 inhabitants, records of operations performed for bowel obstruction over a period of 70 months were retrieved. Codes for bowel obstruction according to an International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) will include: Intestinal adhesion with obstruction, Other and unspecified intestinal obstruction, Intestinal obstruction and Peritoneal adhesions. Amount of adhesion...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Subjects operated for bowel obstruction -from January 1st 2006 to October 31st 2011
• Surgical codes for bowel obstruction:
• • Intestinal adhesion with obstruction
• • Other and unspecified intestinal obstruction
• • Intestinal obstruction
• • Unspecified and Peritoneal adhesions
• Surgical procedures identified for bowel obstruction:
• • Division of band adhesion
• • Adhesiolysis
• • Other separation of adhesion during bowel obstruction
• • Laparotomy and reposition or detorsion of intestine.
• Exclusion Criterias:
• • -Extra-peritoneal surgery such as inguinal or ventral hernia repair was excluded.