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Untreatable faecal incontinence: colostomy or colostomy and proctectomy?
Colorectal Dis
January 2002
St Mark's Hospital and Academic Institute, Harrow, UK, Emergency Surgery Department S.Orsola Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
PURPOSE: To determine the frequency of rectal symptoms and secondary proctectomy in patients undergoing elective permanent end sigmoid colostomy for faecal incontinence and determine risk factors. METHODS: A retrospective chart review of patients undergoing elective end sigmoid colostomy for faecal incontinence at St Mark's Hospital between January 1991 and December 1998. Patients were divided into three groups: A, symptoms leading to subsequent proctectomy; B, symptomatic but avoiding proctectomy; C, asymptomatic.
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