title: [Gallstone ileus].
abstract: Aetiopathogenesis, diagnosis as well as typical and atypical courses are described and discussed with regard to 50 patients with gallstone ileus. Overall lethality amounted to 36 per cent, including 15 per cent for patients with enterotomy alone and 53 per cent for patients who had undergone enterotomy with faecal aspiration. Postoperative complications were recorded from 78 per cent of the survivors.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D011379:Prognosis
vernacular_title: Der Gallensteinileus.