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A patient who had a cecostomy because of a complicated appendicitis at the age of 17 functioned with an excluded colon for 47 years. He was then hospitalized for diverticulitis and left pericolic abscess. After treatment of the abscess by left segmental colectomy and reanastomosis, the cecostomy was closed. Two years later, he presented a normal bowel habit and improvement of his diversuggest that such an approach has a beneficial effect (168).

The current state of relative disillusionment with therapeutic portosystemic shunting is reflected by this increase of interest in methods which interfere directly with esophageal varices. It is hoped that the value of these methods will be compared critically with the more standard and conservative approaches to treatment of this vexing clinical problem.

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Dent, J. What's new in the esophagus. Digest Dis Sci 26, 161–173 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01312237

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