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reveals an overall mortality rate of 5.7 %. Two hundred and fifty patients are in normal health leading active lives. Conversion to total ileostomy has been necessary in 14 cases (5%0 of operative survivors), because of the development of carcinoma of the rectum, stricture, incontinence, or other complications.
Goble et al. (Sat,) studied this question.