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Murine Distal Colostomy, A Novel Model of Diversion Colitis in C57BL/6 Mice
Published on: July 12, 2018
[Complications of the terminal colostomy and their treatment]
Abstract:
The authors describe a comparative analysis of results of surgical treatment of complications after using different variants of end terminal colostomy in 34 patients aged from 23 to 72 years with stenosing carcinoma of the sigmoid (in 19 patients) and dolichosigmoid (in 6 patients) complicated by acute intestinal obstruction, traumatic injuries of the colon (in 5 patients) and nonspecific ulcerative colitis (in 4 patients) complicated by perforation of the intestinal wall and peritonitis. It was found that using a modified variant of formation of end terminal flat colostomy and performing a controlled intra- and postoperative decompression and intraluminal lavage of the colon with the help of an original author's new model of the aspiration-lavage device allows the number of postcolostomy complications to be decreased and the nearest and long-term results of surgical treatment to be improved.
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