Re: anyone heard of the term 'matured adhesions' as in gone?

From: Caroline (cmfrazier@aol.com)
Tue Oct 22 20:51:22 2002


At Tue, 22 Oct 2002, gidge wrote: >Gidge, maybe the doctor used the term "matured" as a figure of speech.
Maybe he met that they were old adhesion that have been there for a while. I don't know just a guess? You think some adhesion are older than others? thought I throw some dry humor in for you. LOL.

>Hi, I recently had my 3rd adhesion removal since my hyst 3 yrs ago. It
>was done by laparotomy because in my last scope the operative report
>said "extensive left sided bowel adhesions"......they did remove some
>adhesions from my bowel on the left and right side, but when I asked my
>general surgeon about the extensive adhesions from the last report he
>said that those had seemed to "mature" and were now normal muscle and
>tissue......??
>
>I have never heard of this happening and am pretty confident he would've
>removed them if they had been there since he seemed sorta bummed that
>there wasn't "more to do" while in there......any input anyone can give
>me on this "matured adhesion" think would be appreciated....I don't
>know, hopefuly he wasn't shooting me a line! thanks for your help!


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