[Ogilvie's syndrome].
In the last 5 years the authors had 10 patients with Ogilvie's syndrome under observation. The frequency of the development of the syndrome among all patients who were in the department in this period of time was 0.09%, those who underwent operation accounted for 0.1%. Mortality was 60%. Seven patients were treated by operation. In all patients the syndrome developed in a severe internal disease of an operative intervention. The authors encountered the following clinical diagnostic signs in these patients: moistened tongue, mild tachycardia, absence of hypertrophy of the intestinal wall, and no fecal masses found in the lumen of the large intestine on operation.