Post-Operative Intra-Abdominal Adhesions

Abstract

THE ætiology of the persistent fibrous adhesions which may develop after an abdominal operation presents an important and as yet incompletely solved problem. The accepted view is that, in most cases, these adhesions represent the fibrous tissue laid down in the healing of raw peritoneal surfaces which may result from surgical trauma or from severe infection. The observations presented here are the results of experiments on adult rats.