Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . collapse occurs early. The extra-abdominal hernias are readily diagnosed and when strangu-lated they give the ordinary symptoms described. Volvulusmay sometimes be recognized as a painful mass in the left iliacfossa, with intense remissive pain and marked early is comparatively rare. Kinks usually produce chronic intes-tinal stasis but may sometimes completely close the lumen ofthe gut and produce the symptoms of occlusion. There wil
Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . collapse occurs early. The extra-abdominal hernias are readily diagnosed and when strangu-lated they give the ordinary symptoms described. Volvulusmay sometimes be recognized as a painful mass in the left iliacfossa, with intense remissive pain and marked early is comparatively rare. Kinks usually produce chronic intes-tinal stasis but may sometimes completely close the lumen ofthe gut and produce the symptoms of occlusion. There will,however, be a history of chronic constipation with autointoxica-tion lasting for many months. Any part of the intestine maybe bound down and kinked, and a variety of symptoms refer-able to the intestinal tract are thus produced. Intestinalparesis is readily diagnosed by the associated paralysis. Cica-tricial stricture gives a history of duodenal, syphilitic, typhoid,or tubercular ulcer. The diagnosis of intestinal occlusion issimple after feculent vomiting has set in. Before this, thepain and abdominal distention may be mistaken for appen-.
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