Successful treatment of two cases of gangrenous intussusception in childhood.
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Early surgical correction of an acute intestinal intussusception in childhood usually results in a satisfactory recovery, but when gangrene of the constricted bowel has occurred the mortality rate is very high. Only three recoveries were reported by Ladd and Gross (1941) in 18 cases in which a primary anastomosis was carried out to deal with this complication. A Mikulicz double enterostomy operation produced only seven recoveries in 25 cases. Similar experi-
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 2 4637 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1949