Talk:Bowel obstruction

The second sentence of the following paragraph is wrong and also isn't a converse of the first. For instance, inflammatory strictures can present in Chron's disease completely regardless of whether the patient has endured abdominal surgery in the past. Removing it now.

Small bowel obstruction caused by Crohn's disease, peritoneal carcinomatosis, sclerosing peritonitis, radiation enteritis, and postpartum bowel obstruction are typically treated conservatively, i.e. without surgery. Conversely, a small bowel obstruction in a "virgin abdomen" (an abdomen that has not seen an operation) is almost never treated conservatively. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oleflar (talk • contribs) 16:26, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The current Ileus page is about obstruction rather than ileus. I think it could be merged here and deleted, or started fresh, because it is not currently about ileus. Osmodiar 15:03, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

We could do with a better large bowel obstruction treatment section. Anybody fancy taking that on? :-) (med student) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.47.102 (talk) 16:01, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't this article say SOMETHING about intestinal sounds, their absence or altered quality??Tedtoal (talk) 06:32, 21 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

- - - it says that "though many cases are treated without surgery, this is a 'surgical problem'"

this has me, the layman, asking what a "surgical problem" is, if not a problem treated by surgery. There is no clear definition of the term "surgical problem" on Wiki that I could find. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.178.236.114 (talk) 16:47, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

classification

can anyone please classify causes into luminal, mural and extramural. would be a great addition to the article 92.40.254.42 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 16:58, 5 February 2012 (UTC).[reply]

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