MANAGEMENT OF PERMANENT COLOSTOMY

Permanent colostomy in the rat.

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Parastomal Hernia-the Achilles Heel of a Permanent Colostomy

the paper; the authors did not use mesh repair for emergency cases. Although the probability of emergency surgery to repair a parastomal hernia is low, we should define the best treatment option for such an occasion, mesh or no mesh. With the development of bi-layer synthetic meshes and antibiotics, we now used more synthetic meshes to repair parastomal hernias. Biologic meshes which are known ...

Perineal colostomy: an alternative to avoid permanent abdominal colostomy: operative technique, results and reflection.

BACKGROUND The most common injury to indicate definitive stoma is rectal cancer. Despite advances in surgical treatment, the abdominoperineal resection is still the most effective operation in radical treatment of malignancies of the distal rectum invading the sphincter and anal canal. Even with all the effort that surgeons have to preserve anal sphincters, abdominoperineal amputation is still ...

Colostomy. Indications, management and complications.

Colostomy

HiSTORICAL. IN pre-Listerian dlays surgeonis werc afraid, and righlitly so, to open the peritoneal cavity. The antiseptic metho(ds of the post-Listeriaii era, and(l the asceptic technique of the present time, were then unlleard of, yet there was no lacking in the anatomical knowledge of the great meni of that period, who must be hailed as the founders of the surgical profession. Their vivid ana...