Surgical treatment; a practical treatise on the therapy of surgical diseases for the use of practitioners and students of surgery . Fig. 1212.—Sliding Flap of Peritoneum Sewed in Place to Cover Denuded Area on the Intestine. Foreign Bodies in the Peritoneal Sac.—While foreign bodies, such asaseptic sponges and instruments, may remain a long time without producingserious harm, they are apt sooner or later to cause mischief. They tendto work out through the skin or to penetrate into some hollow viscus such as THE ABDOMEN 545 the intestine or bladder. Death results in many cases from these accide
Surgical treatment; a practical treatise on the therapy of surgical diseases for the use of practitioners and students of surgery . Fig. 1212.—Sliding Flap of Peritoneum Sewed in Place to Cover Denuded Area on the Intestine. Foreign Bodies in the Peritoneal Sac.—While foreign bodies, such asaseptic sponges and instruments, may remain a long time without producingserious harm, they are apt sooner or later to cause mischief. They tendto work out through the skin or to penetrate into some hollow viscus such as THE ABDOMEN 545 the intestine or bladder. Death results in many cases from these bodies such as bits of thread, cotton fibers from sponges and bits ofmetal from instruments cause no appreciable harm, still they undoubtedlyare capable of provoking adhesions. For these reasons operations should be. Fig. 1213.—Graft of Omentum Used to Cover a Denuded Surface on the Intestine. conducted so as to minimize this danger (see Toilet of the Peritoneum, page 5i5)- An aseptic foreign body, known, or even suspected to be in the peritoneal sac, should be sought for even though the quest involve the reopening of the
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