title: [Intestinal obstruction after child abdominal surgery (author's transl)].
abstract: From 1957 to 1978, 211 intestinal obstructions were treated at Hôpital des Enfants malades, Paris: 103 coming from our own surgery, 108 from other surgical centers. 24,6% cases are observed in children less than one year old, after neo-natal surgery. 41% are observed between 5 and 9 years of age, at the "appendicitis period". 61% obstructions follow an appendicectomy. 74% of obstructions happen in the first year after surgery, of which 32% in the first month (the early mechanical intestinal obstruction between 8 days and 7 years after the first obstruction: 72% in the first year, of which 30,5% within the first month. Some precisions are given about clinical symptoms, site and intestinal lesions. The study of the preventive surgical procedures (Noble's, or Child-Philip's technics) are not included in this paper.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012086:Reoperation; D000267:Tissue Adhesions / Q000150:complications*
vernacular_title: Les occlusions sur bride après la chirurgie abdominale d l'enfant.