Further experience with the Childs-Phillips plication operation.

The Childs-Phillips plication operation was performed in forty-two patients, as treatment for recurrent small bowel obstruction in nineteen and as prophylaxis against future intestinal obstruction in twenty-three. Intestinal obstruction occurred later in only one patient. Eight of ten patients with acute peritonitis died in the postoperative period. Consequently, the operation is not recommended in the presence of generalized acute peritonitis.