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colectomy
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colectomy [kə′lek·tə·mē]
(medicine)
Excision of all or a portion of the colon.


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There are two commonly employed strategies for this approach: either segmental resection of the bowel containing the tumour followed by on table lavage of the upstream bowel prior to anastomosis; or else a subtotal colectomy is performed (in other words the tumour and all colon proximal to it is resected), and the terminal ileum is anastomosed to the colon or rectum downstream of the tumour.
Abdominal irrigation and subtotal colectomy with proximal fecal diversion was performed.
49) A recent study, (54) investigated gastric emptying in 12 severely constipated patients before and after subtotal colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis.
 
 
 
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