Acute intestinal obstruction / by Monroe A. McIver.

  • McIver, Monroe A. (Monroe Anderson), 1840-
Date:
1934
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Credit: Acute intestinal obstruction / by Monroe A. McIver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Massachusetts General Hospital, cases of peritonitis with the paralytic functional type of obstruction are excluded; a cer¬ tain number of cases, however, where peritonitis was present INCIDENCE OF TYPES OF OBSTRUCTION IN A TEN-YEAR SERIES OF CASES AT MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL almost one-half the total number of cases; bands and adhesions were the cause of another large group; neoplasms were responsible for a third; intussusceptions and volvuli came next; while the remaining cases were in the rarer groups. (Mclver18) as a complication but where the mechanical factor of inflamma¬ tory adhesions was the important element, have been included under “early postoperative obstructions/' Souttar makes no mention of peritonitis in his table.20 There are four groups that are usually given the same titles: volvulus, intussusception, tumors (or carcinomas) and