Complications of colostomy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 1970 English Publisher:Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Journal:Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, volume 13, pages 448-450 (issn: 0012-3706,

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Authors: F J, Burns;

doi: 10.1007/bf02616791

pmid: 5501401

Complications of colostomy

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In a series of 307 colostomies established in 296 patients, there were complications in 53 patients (16 per cent), of whom 41 had reoperations to correct the complications. One patient died of sepsis following operation for a perforation caused by an irrigating catheter.

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Saint Louis University
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Keywords

Hernia, Ventral, Colonic Diseases, Postoperative Complications, Intestinal Perforation, Sepsis, Colostomy, Drainage, Humans, Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, Intubation, Gastrointestinal, Intestinal Obstruction, Retrospective Studies

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