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Acute small-intestinal obstruction is not an uncommon complication following excisional operation for inflammatory disease of the bowel. In the Monash series the most common cause was adhesion formation. Stoma problems accounted for a small number. There was a special tendency for the complication to appear soon after the excisional surgery. A significant mortality rate accompanied obstructive complication and, over the long term, one in five patients needed further surgery for a recurrence.
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Hughes, E.S.R., McDermott, F.T. & Masterton, J.P. Intestinal obstruction following operation for inflammatory disease of the bowel. Dis Colon Rectum 22, 469–471 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586931
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586931