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surgeonstoperformasplenectomyontheseexsanguinatingpatients— inspiteofthefactthatJulesPéanofParishad performeda successful splenectomy on a girl with a massive splenic cyst in 1867. Two unsuccessful attempts to save life in splenic rupture were reported in 1892bySir Arbuthnot Lane of Guy’sHospital, London, and three more fatal cases were recorded by Friedrich Trendelenburg in Leipzig the followingyear.Thewordingofthesecasereportsstronglysuggeststhat had blood transfusion been available, the patients might well have survived.
ItfelltoOskarRiegnerinBreslautoperformthefirstsplenectomyfora pulpedspleenwithsurvivalin1893.Thepatient,aladof14,wasfoundto havethe spleencompletelysevered andthere was1.5Lofblood inthe abdomen. Normal saline was given subcutaneously into all four limbs. Hisrecoverywascomplicatedbygangreneoftheleftfoot,whichrequired amputation,butheleftthehospital,completewithartificiallimb,5months afterhissplenectomy.
Intestinalobstruction
Not surprisingly, early attempts to deal with large bowel obstruction (usuallydue to aleft-sidedcolonic cancer) comprisedperformance of a colostomy.The firstattempt to dothis wasmadeby PilloreofRouen in
1776.Heactuallycarriedoutacecostomyonawinemerchantwithgross abdominal distension due to a rectosigmoid growth. The operation produced great relief, but the patient died on the 28th day because of necrosis of a loop of jejunum, brought about by the large amounts of mercurygiveninthepre-operativeattemptstoovercometheobstruction. Itremained forPierreFine ofGeneva, in1797,to performa successful transverse colostomy. The patient, a lady of 63 with an obstructing sigmoidgrowth,died14weekslaterwithascites.
Not until the introduction of anesthesia and antisepsis could routine resection of bowel cancers be performed, the first success in this era being reported by Vincent Czerny in Heidelberg in 1879. It was soon realizedthatresectionoftheobstructedcolonwasverylikelytoresultin afatalanastomoticleak.Exteriorizationofthegrowth,withformationofa double-barrelledcolostomyanditssubsequentclosurewasintroducedby
FrankThomasPaulofLiverpoolin1895,andbyJohannesvonMikulicz­Radecki of Breslau a little later. This procedure, the Paul-Mikulicz operation,was shownby thelatter toreduce mortalityinhis owncases from 43% with primary resection to 12.5% with the exteriorization method.
With its vivid clinical features of intestinal obstruction in a baby, passage of redcurrant jelly stools, a palpable abdominal mass and sometimes a prolapsing mass to be felt per rectum or even seen to protrudethroughtheanalverge,itisnotsurprisingthatintussusceptionin children was one of the earliest specific pathologies of the acute abdomen to be recognized. Treatment was expectant, with the use of enemas or rectal bougies, in attempts to reduce the mass. Surgeons were encouraged to dothis by very occasional reports of success and still rarer accounts of recovery following the passage of the sloughed gangrenousbowelperrectum.Thefirstoperativesuccesswasreported bySirJonathanHutchinson,oftheLondonHospital,in1871.Hispatient, agirl aged 2,hadher intussusceptionreducedthrough a shortmid-line incision, the operation requiring just a few minutes. Hutchinson’s meticulousreporttabulated 131previously recordedcases,whichmake sadreadingindeed.
Therewasadownsidetothisnewabdominalsurgery.Itwasnot long after this new era commenced that the first reports appeared of small bowel obstruction due to postoperative adhesions. Thomas Bryant of Guy’s Hospital recorded the first example in 1872 — a fatal case following an ovariotomy. A second fatality, 4 years after removal of an ovarianmass,wasreportedin1883byWilliamBattleofLondon.Today, postoperative adhesions and bands account forsome three-quartersof allcasesofsmallbowelobstructionsintheWesternWorld.
Perforatedpepticulcer
Untreated, a perforated peptic ulcer nearly always results in fatal peritonitis. Unsuccessful attempts at repair were made by Mikulicz­Radeckiin1884andbyCzernyin1885andsubsequentlybyanumberof other surgeons. This depressing series came to an end under most difficultcircumstances.In1892,LudwigHeusnerofWuppertal,Germany,
repairedaperforatedgastric ulcer high up on the lesser curve in a 41­year-old businessman with a 16-hour history; the operation was performedinthe middle of the night by candlelight! The convalescence wascomplicatedbyaleft-sidedempyema,whichrequireddrainage.Two yearslater,ThomasMorse,inNorwich,publishedthesuccessfulrepairof aperforationnearthecardia in a girl of 20. With these two successes, operationforthisconditionbecameroutine.Interestingly,gastriculcerat theturnofthe20thcenturywasfarcommonerthanduodenalulcerand wasespeciallyfoundinyoungwomen.
Rupturedectopicpregnancy
Until1883arupturedectopicpregnancywasadeathsentence.Thisis surprisingbecause theearlypioneers ofabdominalsurgery, goingback to pre-anesthetic era, were, in the main, concerned with removal of ovarian masses. Indeed, the first elective abdominal operation for a knownpathologywastheremovalofamassiveovariancystbyEphraim McDowell in Danville, Kentucky, in 1809. Yet, for some inexplicable reason,thesurgeonwouldstand helplesslybythebedsideandwatcha young woman, in the most useful time of her existence, exsanguinate fromherrupturedtube.Thefirstsurgeontoperformsuccessfulsurgeryin this condition was Robert Lawson Tait, of Birmingham, whom we have alreadymentionedperformingasuccessfulappendicectomyin1880.Tait was asked to see a girl with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy by Dr. Hallwright, a general practitioner. Hallwright suggested that Tait should removetherupturedtube.Taitrecordedthefollowing:
Thesuggestionstaggered meandIamafraidI did notreceiveitfavourably.Ideclinedto act
andafurtherhaemorrhagekilledthepatient.Apost-mortemexaminationrevealedtheperfect
accuracyofthediagnosis.Icarefullyinspectedthespecimenthatwasremovedandfoundthat
ifIhad tied the broad ligamentandremovedthe tube I should havecompletelyarrestedthe
haemorrhage,andInowbelievethathadIdonethisthepatient’slifewouldhavebeensaved.
Eighteenmonthslater,Taitoperatedonaclearlydyingpatient,thefirst occasion in which such an operation was performed. The patient, in those pre-transfusion days, died of exsanguination. Finally, in March
1888, Tait performed a successful salpingectomy on such a case, who survivedeven though,atoperation, theabdomen wasfullof clot.Years later,he wasableto report39cases,withbuttwodeaths,includingthe first.
Envoi
Eventoday,theacuteabdomenpresentsadiagnosticandtherapeutic challenge to the surgeon. This is in spite of the fact that we have the ancillary aids of radiology and other imaging, biochemical and haematologicalstudiestohelpthediagnosisandbloodtransfusion,fluid replacement, nasogastric suction, antibiotics and skilled anesthetists to assistwiththerapy.
Thestudyofsurgicalhistoryshowsthat, occasionally,like thefrog — wegoonestepforward,twostepsback…( Figure2.1).
Figure2.1.Greatadvanceinsurgery!
“Let us therefore look back with a mélange of amazement, pride, and humility at the efforts of our surgicalforefathers as they pavedthe wayforus in the managementofthisfascinatinggroupofdiseases!”
HaroldEllis
PARTII
Beforetheoperation
Chapter3
Theacuteabdomen
MosheSchein,PaulN.Rogers,AriLeppäniemi,DannyRosinand
JonathanE.Efron
1
Fortheabdominalsurgeonitisafamiliarexperiencetosit, ready scrubbed, and gowned, in a corner of the quiet theatre,withtheclockpointingmidnight.…Inafewminutes the patient will be wheeled in and another emergency laparotomy will commence. This is the culmination of a process which began a few hours previously with the surgeonmeetingwithandexaminingthepatient,reachinga diagnosis,andmakingaplanofaction.
PeterF.Jones
The general rule can be laid down that the majority of severeabdominalpains whichensuein patientswhohave been previously fairly well, and which last as long as six hours,arecausedbyconditionsofsurgicalimport.
ZacharyCope
Simplystated,theterm‘acuteabdomen’referstoabdominalpain of short duration that requires a decision regarding whether an urgent intervention is necessary. This clinical problem is the most
common cause for you to be called upon to provide a surgical consultation in the emergency room, and serves as a convenient gateway for a discussion of the approach to abdominal surgical emergencies.
Itisasmuchanintellectualexercisetotackletheproblems ofbellyacheastoworkonthehumangenome.
HughDudley
Theproblem
Most major textbookscontain a long list of possible causes of acute abdominalpain. These ‘biglists’usuallygo from perforatedpeptic ulcer downtosuchesotericcausesasporphyriaandblackwidowspiderbites. The lists are popular with medical students and residents in internal medicine,butareuselessforpracticalguyslikeyou.
The experienced surgeon called upon to consult a patient with acute abdominal pain in theemergency room(ER) in the middle ofthe night simply doesn’t workthis way. Heor she doesn’tconsider the 50 or so ‘mostlikely’causesofacuteabdominal pain from the list, attemptingto rule them out one by one. Instead, the intelligent surgeon tries to
identify a clinical pattern, and to decide upon a course of action from a limited menu of management options. Below we will
demonstratehowthemultipleetiologiesforacuteabdominalpainactually converge into a small number of easily recognizable clinical patterns. Once recognized, each of these patterns dictates a specific course of action.
The acute abdomen: management menus and clinical
patterns
Themanagementoptions
SeeingapatientwithanacuteabdomenintheER( Figure3.1),you have only a few management options to choose from the following menu.
Immediateoperation
(“surgerynow…now…bynowImeannow!”).
Emergencyoperation
(“surgerywithin2-3hours…noneedtorun!”).
Urgent operation
 (“Let us take some time and optimize the patient and
operatetomorrowmorning”).
Invasivenon-surgicaltreatments
(“Let’sembolizethebleeder”).
Conservativetreatment—intheICUifnecessary
 (“I plan to
admitandtreatwithintravenousfluids,antibiotics,possiblyimageagain.Imaystill
decidetooperatelater…TheICUisthebestplaceforasickpatientwhodoesnot
needsurgerynowbuthasorgandysfunction”).
Dischargehome
.
Figure3.1.“Whichofthemhasan‘acuteabdomen’?”
Theclinicalpatterns
Theacuteabdomenusuallypresentsasoneofthewell-definedclinical patternslistedbelow.
Abdominalpainandshock.
Generalizedperitonitis.
Localizedperitonitis(confinedtoonequadrantoftheabdomen).
Intestinalobstruction.
Wastebasket(‘non-specific’abdominalpainordueto‘medicalcauses’).
Gynecological.
Trauma.
The last two patterns (gynecological and trauma) are addresed elsewhere in this book. Occasionally a mixed picture of obstruction/peritonitismaypresent.Foreachoftheseclinicalpatterns you have to choose a management option from the aforementioned menu—butyourfirsttaskistoidentifythespecificpatterninorder
toknowhowtoproceed.
Abdominalpainandshock
This is the most dramatic and least common clinical pattern of the acute abdomen. The patient typically presents pale and diaphoretic, in severe abdominal pain and with hypotension, the so-calledabdominal
apoplexy.Thetwomostcommonetiologiesofthisclinicalpatternarea
ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and a ruptured ectopic pregnancy( Chapters34and35).Herethe onlymanagement option
is immediate surgery NOW! No timeshould be wastedon ‘preparation’ andonancillaryinvestigations.Losingapatientwithabdominalapoplexy intheCTscannerisacardinal,andunfortunatelynottoorare,sin.
Notehoweverthatotherabdominalemergenciesmayalsopresentwith abdominal pain and shock due to fluid loss into the ‘third space’. This may occur for example in patients with intestinal obstruction ( Chapter21),orsevereacutepancreatitis( Chapter19)—particularly if neglected or superimposed on a deficient cardiovascular system. In manyofthesesituationsan emergencyoperation isnot necessary;and — as we will be nagging you over and over again — operatingon a poorlyresuscitatedpatientislikeskatingonthinice.
Generalizedperitonitis
Theclinicalpictureofgeneralizedperitonitisconsistsofdiffuse,severe abdominalpaininapatientwholookssickandtoxic.Thepatienttypically