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Protective stoma in anterior resection of the rectum: when, how and why?
Giuseppe Pappalardo1, Domenico Spoletini, Delia Proposito
1Department of General Surgery, Surgical Specialties and Organ Transplantation P.Stefanini, Division of General Surgery I, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. giuseppe.pappalardo@uniroma1.it
Background:
The use of protective stoma in anterior resection (AR) is controversial. Neoadjuvant therapy, TME and laparoscopy seem to increase the rate of anastomotic dehiscences (a.d.).
Patients And Methods:
In a prospective study, 219 patients were submitted to elective open AR (109 patients), open AR+TME nerve-sparing (110 patients), 35 of which had intrasphinteric anastomosis. Fifty-five patients were treated by neoadjuvant therapy. Primary stoma was not performed.
Results:
We had 15 (6.8%) a.d.: 5 (2.3%) major and 10 (4.4%) minor. In the five major a.d. an immediate colostomy was performed with one death. In the 10 minor the a.d. was cured conservatively.
Conclusions:
A protective stoma is necessary in less than 10% of the patients treated with AR, so avoiding further surgery, mortality, morbidity and higher medical costs in most patients.
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