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THE TREATMENT OF INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION
Author(s) -
Z CEPEK,
M METELKA
Publication year - 1927
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1927.tb04437.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science , medicine
Recently Aird, of Edinburgh, stated that since the beginning of the century the mortality from intestinal obstruction has remained about 40 per cent. He added that despite animal experimentation, the knowledge acquired in this field has not been sufficiently applied to therapy. When one considers that intestinal obstruction is one of the most common occurrences, if not the most common, at least in the surgical clinic of Professor Delrez, and when one reflects on the high mortality reported by Aird, one is not surprised at the efforts of clinicians to improve the treatment for this grave condition. I wish particularly to emphasize that obstruction is rarely a disease