Table III.

Treatment and prognosis of patients.

Variable	Value
Meeting surgical indications	6 (30%)
Operation	4 (20%)
Enterodialysis and enterectomy	1 (5%)
Gastrointestinal cancer resection	2 (5%)
Hernioplasty of oblique hernia	1 (5%)
Conservative treatment	16 (80%)
In-hospital mortality (%)	5 (25%)
Strangulated intestinal obstruction	2 (10%)
Simple intestinal obstruction with pulmonary infection	1 (5%)
Simple intestinal obstruction with cerebral infarction	1 (5%)
Severe pulmonary infection with simple intestinal obstruction	1 (5%)
Time of gas absorption, day
Average (range)	4.2 (2-8)