Acute states in colorectal surgery

: The authors evaluate their own group of 80 patients treated in the acute stage of colorectal disease during the period between 1980-1987 at the First Surgical Clinic, Faculty Hospital with Policlinic, Olomouc. Fifty-five patients treated by the classical three-stage operation with a lethality of 51%, 25 patients treated by primary resection with a lethality of 31%. The encouraging immediate and long-term results of rationally indicated acute resections are not in favour of three-stage operations.