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Throughout surgical history, surgeons have viewed the creation of an intestinal stoma with distaste but, at the same time understood its potential lifesaving value—as reflected by these two quotations from master surgeons
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Carriquiry, L. (2010). Intestinal Stomas. In: Schein, M., Rogers, P., Assalia, A. (eds) Schein's Common Sense Emergency Abdominal Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74821-2_14
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