Urgent laparoscopic intervention was converted to longitudinal lower abdominal laparotomy owing to extensive adhesions. The intestinal perforation was located in the ileum, caused by a 3-cm-long ...

People with Crohn’s disease who have had a previous abdominal surgery may be more prone to developing adhesions. Adhesions can also develop from an abscess or fistula. Internal organs normally ...

However, one of the complications associated with multiple cesarean sections is the formation of intra-abdominal adhesions. These adhesions are bands of scar tissue that can form between internal ...

Table 3 illustrates that there were 351,777 adhesiolysis-related hospitalizations in the US in 2005, representing 119 adhesiolysis hospitalizations per 100,000 persons. There were 898 adhesiolysis ...

From the NIS, all hospitalizations containing a DRG code of peritoneal adhesiolysis with or without complications (i.e., DRG 150, 151) were defined as primary adhesiolysis-related hospitalizations ...