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Patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer
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May support selective diverting stoma in patients with multiple risk factors; leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
Patients with 2 or more identified risk factors (e.g., male sex, low anastomosis) may require a diverting stoma to mitigate the risk of anastomotic leakage after laparoscopic rectal cancer excision.
Park et al. (2013) studied this question.
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