Re-Operative Surgery for Intestinal Stoma Complications

Intestinal stomas remain a vital tool for the surgeon caring for patients with bowel disease. This chapter reviews stoma complications that may result in re-operative surgery to revise the stoma. It includes a comprehensive review of early and late stoma complications as well as an extensive review of the treatment and prevention of parastomal hernia. Surgical techniques, adherence to basic surgical principles, proper preoperative patient counseling, and pre-operative stoma marking, all of which may prevent many of these complications and enable the surgeon to create the perfect stoma, are also reviewed.

Source: Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery - September 19, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Laurence R. Sands, Carlos Sam Morales Source Type: research