Intestinal obstruction by gall-stone
โ Scribed by W. J. Fraser
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1954
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 366 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
ACUTE intestinal obstruction by gall-stones is uncommon. Vick (1936) gives a figure of 0.7 per cent of all cases of obstruction, and in the great majority of these the stone impacts in the small intestine. T h e percentage of stones impacting in the large bowel is small. Grey Turner (1932) describ
ALTIIOUGH all the leading text-books on surgery mention impaction of gall-stones as one of the causes of intestinal obstruction, i t must be admitted that it is a rare condition. Two cases have recently occurred a t King's College Hospital within six weeks of each other, but during the past ten year