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The purpose of this review was to assess the incidence and risk factors for adhesive small bowel obstruction (SBO) following laparotomy.
The PubMed database was systematically reviewed to identify studies in the English literature delineating the incidence of adhesive SBO and reporting risk factors for the development of this morbidity.
A total of 446,331 abdominal operations were eligible for inclusion in this analysis. The overall incidence of SBO...