Skip to main content

Lund University Publications

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

A clinical evaluation of postoperative peritoneal lavage in the treatment of perforated appendicitis

Uden, P ; Eskilsson, P ; Brunes, L and Mätzsch, Thomas LU (1983) In British Journal of Surgery 70(6). p.348-349
Abstract
In a comparative investigation, 369 patients operated upon for perforated appendicitis were studied retrospectively. During the period 1973-1979 181 patients with perforated appendicitis, treated at Sundsvall Hospital, were all given postoperative peritoneal lavage, whereas 188 patients with the same diagnosis treated at Skovde Hospital received no such treatment. Appendicectomy was performed in all patients and all were given systemic antibiotic therapy. Complications recorded were postoperative deaths, intra-abdominal abscesses, wound infections, postoperative ileus and lavage catheter complications. Postoperative peritoneal lavage did not diminish the frequency of these postoperative complications.
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
; ; and
publishing date
type
Contribution to journal
publication status
published
subject
in
British Journal of Surgery
volume
70
issue
6
pages
348 - 349
publisher
Oxford University Press
external identifiers
  • pmid:6860909
  • scopus:0020521385
ISSN
1365-2168
DOI
10.1002/bjs.1800700613
language
English
LU publication?
no
additional info
The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Emergency medicine/Medicine/Surgery (013240200)
id
5e97c238-e713-40a3-8b67-65355298214f (old id 1103081)
date added to LUP
2016-04-01 12:18:49
date last changed
2021-09-19 04:54:17
@article{5e97c238-e713-40a3-8b67-65355298214f,
  abstract     = {{In a comparative investigation, 369 patients operated upon for perforated appendicitis were studied retrospectively. During the period 1973-1979 181 patients with perforated appendicitis, treated at Sundsvall Hospital, were all given postoperative peritoneal lavage, whereas 188 patients with the same diagnosis treated at Skovde Hospital received no such treatment. Appendicectomy was performed in all patients and all were given systemic antibiotic therapy. Complications recorded were postoperative deaths, intra-abdominal abscesses, wound infections, postoperative ileus and lavage catheter complications. Postoperative peritoneal lavage did not diminish the frequency of these postoperative complications.}},
  author       = {{Uden, P and Eskilsson, P and Brunes, L and Mätzsch, Thomas}},
  issn         = {{1365-2168}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{6}},
  pages        = {{348--349}},
  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  series       = {{British Journal of Surgery}},
  title        = {{A clinical evaluation of postoperative peritoneal lavage in the treatment of perforated appendicitis}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800700613}},
  doi          = {{10.1002/bjs.1800700613}},
  volume       = {{70}},
  year         = {{1983}},
}