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Nathan L. Brightwell, MD; Arthur S. McFee, MD, PhD; J. Bradley Aust, MD, PhD

Arch Surg. 1977;112(4):505-511.

Abstract
• Fifty-eight cases of intestinal obstruction requiring operative intervention were reviewed. Enterolysis alone as the treatment for bowel obstruction as a result of adhesions appears to be as good or better than the long tube stent. Patients treated with enterolysis alone had a shorter period of postoperative ileus, a shorter hospital confinement following operation, and fewer recurrent obstructions. These patients also had a longer interval between episodes of reobstruction than did those treated with an intraluminal long tube stent.

(Arch Surg 112:505-511, 1977)

Author Affiliations
From the Bexar County Hospital (Dr Brightwell) and the Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center (Drs McFee and Aust), San Antonio, Tex.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Dec 13, 1976.

Read before the 84th annual meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Coronado, Calif, Nov 17, 1976.

Reprint requests to Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr, San Antonio, TX 78284 (Dr McFee).

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