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2. Colostomy - Wikipedia

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   The other portion of the bowel is either removed or sewn shut (Hartmann's procedure). Double barrel colostomy: The bowel is severed and both ends are brought out onto the abdomen. Only the proximal stoma is functioning. Most often, double-barrel colostomy is a temporary colostomy with two openings into the colon (distal and proximal).

3. Stoma (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   This surgical procedure is invoked usually as a result of and solution to disease in the GIT. The procedure involves bisecting this tube, usually between the later stage of the small intestine and the large intestine or colon, hence colostomy, and exiting it from the body in the abdominal region. The point of exiting is what is known as the stoma.

4. Enterostomy - Wikipedia

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   An enterostomy (entero-+ -stomy; / ɛ n t ə ˈ r ɒ s t oʊ m i /) is either (1) a surgical procedure to create a durable opening (called a stoma) through the abdominal wall into an intestine (small intestine or large intestine) or (2) the stoma thus created. The various types of enterostomy are named according to which intestinal segment is ...

5. Hartmann's operation - Wikipedia

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   The Hartmann's procedure with a proximal end colostomy or ileostomy is the most common operation carried out by general surgeons for management of malignant obstruction of the distal colon. During this procedure, the lesion is removed, the distal bowel closed intraperitoneally, and the proximal bowel diverted with a stoma .

6. List of surgical procedures - Wikipedia

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   -ostomy or -stomy : surgically creating a hole (a new "mouth" or "stoma", from the Greek στόμα (stóma), meaning "body", see List of -ostomies)-otomy or -tomy : surgical incision (see List of -otomies)-pexy : to fix or secure

7. Matthew Perry recalls horrors of dealing with colostomy bag ...

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   During surgery, he was given propofol —which he referred to as "the drug that killed Michael Jackson"— and his heart stopped for five minutes. Perry is 18 months sober today.