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Chapter 7
Figure 1. Study profile
noted intraoperatively or when abscess formation was diagnosed postoperatively. Other complications included wound infection, small bowel obstruction (SBO), fistula formation and hospital stay of more than four days. Subsequent outpatient visits, admissions to the hospital or abdominal operations were divided in into three categories. The first category entailed adhesion related problems, namely small bowel obstruction treated either conservatively of operatively. The second group consisted of patients whose complaints were possibly related to adhesions, such as non-specific abdominal complaints without other
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