Experience With Uretero‐ileosigmoidostomy

SUMMARY Uretero‐ileosigmoidostomy has been performed in twelve patients without operative mortality and with few post‐operative complications. This series is too small and the observation period of eight of the twelve patients too short to allow a well‐founded judgment to be made. The method certainly has theoretical and probably practical advantages over ureter implantation into the intact colon. The fact remains, however, that 50 per cent. of the patients require sodium citrate to preserve the alkali reserve and that regurgitation of sigmoid contents into the loop seems to be possible, at least during the early post‐operative period.