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Despite the dramatic reduction of colon-related mortality from about 60% during World War I to about 40% during World War II to about 10% during the Vietnam War and to lower than 3% in the last decade, the colon-related morbidity remains unacceptably high. The abdominal sepsis rate has remained at about 20% in most prospective studies in the last decade (Table 22.1). No other organ injury is associated with a higher septic complication rate than the colon.
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Beck, D.E., Roberts, P.L., Rombeau, J.L., Stamos, M.J., Wexner, S.D. (2009). Colon and Rectal Trauma and Rectal Foreign Bodies. In: Wexner, S., Stamos, M., Rombeau, J., Roberts, P., Beck, D. (eds) The ASCRS Manual of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/b12857_22
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