Abdominal emergencies in a tropical Afri
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Oluwole G. Ajao
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Article
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1981
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Summary A decade ago intestinal obstruction was the commonest cause of general surgical abdominal emergency admissions in many tropical African countries. Recently, there has been a change in this pattern and acute appendicitis has become the major cause of emergency admissions. Most cases of i