Surgical Treatment of diffuse peritonitis and severe acute pancreatits. Source control as precondition for survival

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Despite continuous efforts to improve surgical management and intensive care medicine, diffuse intra-abdominal sepsis still remains a serious problem in the field of general surgery. With regard to several risk factors and patient selection, mortality varies between 20% and 55%...

(In: Polak, G. [Hg.]: medicine & health 2007, Going International, Wien 2006, S. 122 - 123)

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Surgery