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PURPOSE: Colonic J-pouch reconstruction is designed to improve functional outcome of coloanal anastomosis. Most surgeons use a diverting colostomy to avoid severe pelvic sepsis caused by anastomotic breakdown. METHODS: We report the outcome of 30 consecutive patients with colonic J-pouch-anal anastomosis without a diverting colostomy performed between November 1992 and October 1993. All patients had carcinoma of the lower two-thirds of the rectum. Patients were seen every three months. Functional results were compared with those of 21 rectal cancer patients with straight coloanal anastomosis who underwent surgery in the same period and 20 normal patients. RESULTS: There were two anastomotic leakages and one postoperative death. After one year, patients with pouch anastomosis had significantly less frequency of defecation and rectal urgency compared with those with straight anastomosis (P <0.01); 48 percent of patients with straight anastomosis had more than five bowel movements per day, whereas all patients with pouch anastomosis had five or less bowel movements per day. Manometric studies showed maximum tolerable volume was significantly higher in patients with pouch anastomosis (81 vs. 152 ml;P <0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Stapled colonic J-pouch-anal anastomosis without a diverting colostomy is a reliable procedure that provides good, long-term functional results.
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Supported by National Science Council, Taiwan, Research Grant NSC 83-0412-B182-021.
Read at the meeting of the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Singapore, Singapore, July 2 to 6, 1994.
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Wang, JY., You, YT., Chen, HH. et al. Stapled colonic J-pouch-anal anastomosis without a diverting colostomy for rectal carcinoma. Dis Colon Rectum 40, 30–34 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02055678
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