To the Editor Page 1 Clinical Medicine Vol 3 No 5 September/October 2003 481 Please submit
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Intestinal obstruction is a common and distressing complication for patients with advanced
abdominal or pelvic cancer. Many of these patients are unfit for surgery due to extensive …

Fluid is secreted into the bowel lumen in obstruction; if a litre or more is lost in this fashion
the patient will feel thirsty. However, most patients will absorb enough fluid from their upper …

The treatment of intestinal obstruction (IO) in patients with advanced or terminal cancer
represents an open and widely discussed topic in clinical oncology practice. As surgical …

Intestinal obstruction is a common and distressing complication for patients with advanced
abdominal or pelvic cancer. Palliative surgery has an inevitable high mortality and morbidity …

Intestinal obstruction is a severe clinical problem in patients with cancer and occurs in 3% of
all patients with malignancies. If the cause is not a primary tumour, but a symptom of intra …

Patients presenting with intestinal obstruction thought to be caused by a primary malignancy
are generally and correctly offered surgery. However, even at presentation, a few will be …

Intestinal obstruction is a relatively common clinical problem in patients with advanced
cancer, particularly those with colorectal and ovarian tumours. A proportion of patients have …

Background Bowel obstruction is a common and distressing outcome in patients with
abdominal or pelvic cancer. Patients and methods Patients may develop bowel obstruction …

A clinical and pathological study was made of 40 patients with intestinal obstruction due to
far-advanced abdominal and/or pelvic malignant disease. Surgical intervention was feasible …