[Treatment of endoscopic colonic perforations by anastomosis in non exclusive lateral colostomy]

The authors report two cases of colonic endoscopic perforation with peritonitis treated by minimal lateral colostomy. The evolution was favorable in this two cases with spontaneous closure of colostomy. We intended to remind the usefulness of this old and simple technique sometimes omitted in the therapeutic armentorium of the iatrogenic colic perforation, especially from endoscopic origin. Thus the risk of complications of an ideal surgery or the necessity of a second-time anastomosis after the initial colostomy can be avoided.