Diabetes mellitus after hypophysectomy for acromegaly.

duodenojejunal flexure and the final one about 4 cm from the caecum. The nylon string was cut and retrieved through the perforations. The patient was put in the Lloyd-Davis position and the lower part of the tube removed from the rectum: one operator pulled from below while another pushed the faecal matter containing the string gently down from within the abdomen. The entire distal end of the tube and the whole length of nylon were retrieved from the bowel per rectum (figure). The patient recovered well but six weeks postoperatively developed acute left ventricular failure and died after a cardiac arrest.