ACUTE OBSTRUCTION OF THE COLON
- 1 December 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 57 (6) , 774-790
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1948.01240020784002
Abstract
THERE is probably no better commentary on the present status of obstructive conditions of the large bowel than Bruusgaard's1 statement in connection with the 13 deaths in the 91 cases of volvulus he was reporting from the Ullevaal Hospital. Fourteen and two-tenths per cent was, he remarked, "a satisfactory rate." It is true that he immediately qualified the remark by saying that it was a satisfactory rate considering the advanced age of most of the patients and the poor physical state of many of them. Nonetheless, the status of a disease can scarcely be regarded as satisfactory if one must be resigned to what amounts to 1 death in every 7 cases, especially if it is remembered that volvulus does not carry the highest mortality rate of obstructive conditions of the large bowel. That dubious distinction goes to malignant obstruction. Isolated series of cases of acute obstruction of theKeywords
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