Why the study?
Does an 8-cm colon J-pouch rectal reconstruction reduce early bowel dysfunction in patients after proctectomy?
Population
23 patients undergoing total or subtotal proctectomy and coloanal or low colorectal reconstruction
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
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May support 8-cm J-pouch to lessen early post-proctectomy dysfunction; case report leaves open need for randomized confirmation.
Does an 8-cm colon J-pouch rectal reconstruction reduce early bowel dysfunction in patients after proctectomy?
An 8-cm colon J-pouch reconstruction may reduce early bowel dysfunction following proctectomy.
Alfred M. Cohen (1993) studied this question.
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