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Postoperative contiguous catheter transabdominal decompression in colonic anastomoses

Report of 17 cases

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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A series of 17 patients is presented in which various segments of large bowel were anastomosed, and wherein decompression was accomplished, utilizing a method of contiguous transabdominal catheter decompression. The method, indications and related factors are discussed.

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  1. From the Department of Surgery, Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and Deaconess Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio

    Frank J. Rack M.D.

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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, San Francisco, California, May 20 to 23, 1963.

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Rack, F.J. Postoperative contiguous catheter transabdominal decompression in colonic anastomoses. Dis Colon Rectum 6, 444–448 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02633483

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