J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 82(9): 1068-1071, 1981

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Report on the annual meeting

THE VALUC OF SAITOH's INTESTINAL STRING FOR THE INTRA-OPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS OF DIFFUSE INTESTINAL ADHESION

Surgery for the patient with diffuse intestinal adhesions makes a surgeon have difficulty with identifying the intestinal pathway direction precisely and waste longer time in handling the adhesions before attempted procedures. Furthermore it is not uncommon to injure other organs accidentally.
In such a case with intestinal adhisions, we have been using an adhesiondiagnostic intestinal string (Saitoh's intestinal string) swallowed and passed through preoperatively. Understanding the intestinal arrangement by preoperative X-ray films using the intestinal string and by intraoperative palpation of the string in the intestinal canal is so helpful that a surgeon can perform a safe and definite surgery, Substantial indications of the string are for detecting not only the location of intestinal adhesions or closed stomas, but the existence of interposed gut or blind loop.
Saitoh's diagnostic intestinal string is invaluable if used for any surgery which can be thought to have possible intestinal adhesions.

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