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Endoscopic balloon dilatation of colonic anastomotic strictures
N O Aston1, W J Owen, J D Irving
1Department of Surgery, Lewisham Hospital, London, UK.
The British Journal of Surgery
|August 1, 1989
Abstract:
Nine postoperative colonic and rectal strictures were treated using dilatation balloons passed over a guide-wire introduced endoscopically. Six strictures resolved after a single dilatation. The method is simple, safe, effective and avoids further surgery.