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Surgery for intestinal blockage and the doctor stated gangrene- could u explain surgery procedures please ?

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See below: Internal scar tissue inside the abdomen can cause an intestinal blockage. If a segment if intestine twists around the scar tissue sometimes that segment of intestine can die & become gangrenous. That bad segment of intestine would be removed & the good intestines reconnected.

Answered 10/16/2012

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