title: Small bowel emergency surgery: literature's review.
abstract: Emergency surgery of the small bowel represents a challenge for the surgeon, in the third millennium as well. There is a wide number of pathologies which involve the small bowel. The present review, by analyzing the recent and past literature, resumes the more commons. The aim of the present review is to provide the main indications to face the principal pathologies an emergency surgeon has to face with during his daily activity.
authors.affiliation: General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery Dept,, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy. carlovallicelli@hotmail.it.
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vallicelli
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Coccolini
authors.forename: Fausto
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Catena
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ansaloni
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Montori
authors.forename: Salomone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Di Saverio
authors.forename: Antonio D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Pinna