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Defunctioning Stomas Result in Significantly More Short-Term Complications Following Low Anterior Resection for Rectal Cancer

BACKGROUND: Studies suggest that defunctioning stomas reduce the rate of anastomotic leakage and urgent reoperations after anterior resection. Although the magnitude of benefit appears to be limited, there has been a trend in recent years towards routinely creating defunctioning stomas. However, lit...

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Autores principales: Emmanuel, Andrew, Chohda, Ezzat, Lapa, Christo, Miles, Andrew, Haji, Amyn, Ellul, Joe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6182750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29777268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00268-018-4672-0