Intestinal stomas are commonly used in a temporary or permanent fashion in gastrointestinal surgeries. The complication rate of stomas has been reported to vary between 23 and 50%. There is only one case in the literature involving transstomal small bowel evisceration following colonic perforation. In this paper, we aimed to present a patient with a perforated colon secondary to ischemic colitis, which resulted in small bowel evisceration through this perforation site.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457594 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/560683 | DOI Listing |
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