Ileostomy

Surgical creation of an external opening into the ILEUM for fecal diversion or drainage. This replacement for the RECTUM is usually created in patients with severe INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES. Loop (continent) or tube (incontinent) procedures are most often employed.

Abstracts

- Closure of temporary stoma after anterior resection.

- Enterostomies--technical aspects. Loop ileostomy is superior to transverse loop colostomy in defunctioning the colorectum. It is easier to manage and is associated with less problems both in...

- [Bibliography on enterostomy, 1965-1974 - including some abstracts (from nursing periodicals only). 2]

- [Diet of stoma patients]

- [Dietary problems of colon or rectum surgical patients]

- [Living with a stoma (equipment and socio-economic problems excluded)]

- [Ostomates]

- [Practical application of stomatherapy: "care of digestive fistulas or urinary diversion"]

- [Restoration of continuity following colectomy for rectocolitis: the ileal graft]