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  2. Colostomy reversal - Wikipedia

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    A colostomy reversal, also known as a colostomy takedown, is a reversal [1] of the colostomy process by which the colon is reattached by anastomosis to the rectum or anus, providing for the reestablishment of flow of waste through the gastrointestinal tract. [citation needed]

  3. Lower anterior resection - Wikipedia

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    General surgery [ edit on Wikidata ] A lower anterior resection , formally known as anterior resection of the rectum and colon and anterior excision of the rectum or simply anterior resection (less precise), is a common surgery for rectal cancer and occasionally is performed to remove a diseased or ruptured portion of the intestine in cases of ...

  4. Surgical anastomosis - Wikipedia

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    While an anastomosis may be end-to-end, equally it could be performed side-to-side or end-to-side depending on the circumstances of the required reconstruction or bypass. The term reanastomosis is also used to describe a surgical reconnection usually reversing a prior surgery to disconnect an anatomical anastomosis , e.g. tubal reversal after ...

  5. Florida surgeon who accidentally removed patient’s liver ...

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    The female patient was scheduled to undergo an ileostomy, a procedure meant to create a hole in a person’s stomach to change the way waste exits their body, according to the United Ostomy ...

  6. 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).

  7. Bowel resection - Wikipedia

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    When caused by cancer, bowel perforation typically requires surgery, including resection of blood and lymph supply to the cancerous area when possible. When perforation is at the site of the tumor, the perforation may be contained in the tumor and self resolve without surgery. However, surgery may be required later for the malignancy itself.

  8. 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.

  9. Diversion colitis - Wikipedia

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    Diversion colitis is an inflammation of the colon which can occur as a complication of ileostomy or colostomy, where symptoms may occur between one month and three years following surgery. [1] It also occurs frequently in a neovagina created by colovaginoplasty , with varying delay after the original procedure. [ 2 ]