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  2. Colectomy - Wikipedia

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    Resection of any part of the colon entails mobilization and the cutting and sealing, or ligation, of the blood vessels supplying the portion of the colon to be removed. [8] A stapler is typically used to cut across the colon to prevent spillage of intestinal contents into the peritoneal cavity. [10]

  3. ICD-10 Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) is a US system of medical classification used for procedural coding.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure classification system to replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.

  4. Hartmann's operation - Wikipedia

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    A proctosigmoidectomy, Hartmann's operation or Hartmann's procedure is the surgical resection of the rectosigmoid colon with closure of the anorectal stump and formation of an end colostomy. It was used to treat colon cancer or inflammation (proctosigmoiditis, proctitis, diverticulitis , volvulus , etc.).

  5. Exploratory laparotomy - Wikipedia

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    enterotomy and bowel repair or bowel resection [13] right or left hemicolectomy [13] pyloric exclusion and gastric diversion, in which gastric secretions are diverted away from the duodenum by closing the pylorus and creating a new connection between the stomach and the small intestine [14] nephrectomy, or removal of all or part of a kidney [15]

  6. Lower anterior resection - Wikipedia

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    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 diverticulitis.

  7. Bowel resection - Wikipedia

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    A bowel resection or enterectomy (enter-+ -ectomy) is a surgical procedure in which a part of an intestine (bowel) is removed, from either the small intestine or large intestine. Often the word enterectomy is reserved for the sense of small bowel resection, in distinction from colectomy , which covers the sense of large bowel resection.

  8. Abdominoperineal resection - Wikipedia

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    William Ernest Miles (1869–1947), an English surgeon first performed the surgery of removing the rectum in 1907. He assumed that the rectal cancer can spread in both upwards and downward directions, thus necessitating the removal of the entire rectum together with the anal sphincters, resulting in a permanent stoma by connecting the proximal end of the descending colon to the skin.

  9. Total mesorectal excision - Wikipedia

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    Other long-term bowel dysfunction symptoms may include fecal and gas incontinence, urgency, frequent bowel movements, and difficulty emptying. The symptoms collectively are referred to as low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) and adversely affect quality of life, sometimes so much so that some patients even prefer to have their stoma-reversal ...