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ITS MANNER OF HEALING IN THE OPEN AND IN THE CLOSED METHOD OF TREATMENT

ISIDOR KROSS, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1939;39(6):1016-1027.

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The technic of operations in all fields of surgery has been standardized on physiologic principles so that, while the detailed procedure itself may and does vary with different surgeons, the underlying principle on which the procedure is based is the same. There is, however, an outstanding exception, and that applies to treatment of the stump of the appendix. While methods of handling the stump are fairly numerous, they may all be grouped into two categories: (1) the buried stump method and (2) the nonburied stump method.

Frequently the reasons brought forward by the proponents of one method in justification of their procedure are the very ones that are used by the opponents of that same method in justification of the other. For instance, Torek¹ pointed to the danger of postoperative adhesions and intestinal obstruction in cases in which simple ligation or the unburied stump method was used and cited . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Attending Surgeon, City Hospital; Associate Surgeon, Beth Israel Hospital and Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases NEW YORK

From the Pathologic Laboratory of the Beth Israel Hospital, Dr. I. Plaut, Director.

Footnotes
Read before the Surgical Section of the New York Academy of Medicine on April 7, 1939.

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