Despite initial conservative management, a significant proportion of patients with anastomotic leaks after elective colorectal resections require laparotomy and end stoma.
Despite initial conservative, antibiotic and radiological intervention being successful in the majority of patients, two out of five patients will still require a laparotomy and over a quarter of patients will have an end stoma.
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