Table 3.
Intervention and outcome of patients with acute intestinal obstruction
| Etiology | Management |
Outcome |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Surgery | Complications | Death | ||
| Hernia | 0 | 132 | 25 | 1 | |
| Neoplasm | 9 | 52 | 21 | 3 | |
| Adhesions | 34 | 23 | 5 | 1 | |
| Intestinal TB | 26 | 26 | 23 | 14 | |
| Volvulus | 4 | 19 | 5 | 1 | |
| Intussusception | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | |
| Miscellaneous | 6 | 28 | 12 | 5 | |
| Total | 79 | 288 | 95 | 27 | |