Life Table analysis of stomal complications following colostomy

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Eduardo Londoño-Schimmer · St Mark's Hospital

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The evidence in this study that spans a 22-year period questions much surgical technical dogma and raises the possibility that parastomal hernias may, like inguinal hernias, represent a failure in the transversalis fascia that might technically be avoidable.

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Stoma care and complications Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments Diverticular Disease and Complications

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Published in: Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

Volume 37, Issue 9, pp. 916-920

DOI: 10.1007/bf02052598

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Life Table analysis of stomal complications following colostomy

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