title: [Clinically silent suture insufficiency in colorectal surgery].
abstract: The courses of 140 colorectal resections were evaluated from among the authors' own patients. Regular postoperative radiological control and follow-up of anastomoses have shown that nearly half of all suture insufficiencies remain without any clinical symptoms. No direct relationship appeared to exist between expansion of suturing leaks and their clinical relevance. This seems to underline the importance of contrast media to follow up colorectal resections.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgischen Klinik des Bezirkskrankenhauses Potsdam.
authors.forename: H U
authors.initials: HU
authors.lastname: Horn
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Röding
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003082:Colectomy; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005119:Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013536:Suture Techniques
vernacular_title: Die klinisch stumme Nahtinsuffizienz in der kolorektalen Chirurgie.