[Intestinal obstruction in extensive postoperative ventral hernia].

The work is based on an experience with surgical treatment of 1017 patients. Intermittent intestinal obstruction was observed in more than 40% of them and was not always dependent on the character of commissural processes. The most frequent cause of its appearance is a combination of commissures with a considerable ptosis and formation of flexions, angular deformities and incomplete torsion of intestinal loops. Supermedial and subcostal hernias with most pronounced commissural processes are comparatively rarely followed by intestinal obstructions (12.5%). It was more often observed in middle- and inferior-medial (56.1%) and iliac (33.3%) hernias with less spreaded commissures.