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Colectomy for constipation—a time for renewed caution?

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Colectomy is rightly viewed as a last resort in selected patients with slow-transit constipation. A new study presents US national data that raises new concerns regarding the outcome of this procedure and perhaps questions whether it should be offered at all.

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  1. Barts Health NHS Trust, The Blizard Institute, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, The National Centre for Bowel Research & Surgical Innovation, 1st Floor Abernethy Building

    Charles H. Knowles

  2. Queen Mary University of London, 2 Newark Street, London, E1 2AT, UK

    Charles H. Knowles

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Knowles, C. Colectomy for constipation—a time for renewed caution?. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 12, 675–676 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2015.191

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