Abstract
Complete mechanical obstruction is a frequent complication of radiation enteritis, necessitating hospital admission and usually leading to unavoidable surgery. To alleviate obstruction, resection of variable lengths of intestine is the usual treatment. This option has the risk of potential anastomotic dehiscence in radiation-injured bowel. In this paper, a new technique of extramucosal stricturoplasty is introduced. It is a method to relieve small bowel obstruction without breaking mucosal continuity, consisting of a double plasty, limited to the serosal and muscular layers, that re-establishes adequate width to the bowel lumen and allows restoration of normal transit.
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