At operation, a colotomy was done, and a polyp with what the surgeon called a "long pedicle" excised. The specimen was immediately examined, frozen section being reported negative for cancer.

Traditional flexible endoscopy has been limited to the confines of the gastrointestinal lumen; however, recent developments involving transluminal access to intra-abdominal structures hold the ...

Particularly in cases where reduction of the intussusception is surgically not feasible surgical interventions such as partial typhlectomy through colotomy (partial cecal amputation) combined with or ...

Based on: A Guide to the Practical Examination of Urine. By James Tyson, M. D. Fourth edition. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 1883. Select the format you want to export the citation of this ...

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Pelvic exenteration has showed to be beneficial therapeutically and palliatively in locally advanced colorectal cancer. Reconstruction of urinary transit posterior to a cystectomy has always been ...

All patients underwent an exploratory laparotomy, and a tract of ~3 × 2 cm of pelvic flexure was resected by an experienced surgeon (AS) during a colotomy for the emptying of the left colon. The horse ...

Laparotomy and fecaloma extraction trough colotomy was undertaken after failure of conservative measures and endoscopic removal attempt. Hirschsprung disease having been ruled out, sigmoidectomy was ...

Forty-two patients with a mean age of 64.9 ±8.4 underwent laparoscopic polypectomy. Laparoscopic mobilization of the colonic segment and colotomy with removal of the polyp was performed for 12 (28.6%) ...

“To undergo reversal of colotomy,” read part of the doctor’s remarks which Basilio also submitted to the court. Ivler was escorted by seven jail officers as indicated in Basilio’s medical ...