Defunctioning Stoma Reduces Symptomatic Anastomotic Leakage After Low Anterior Resection of the Rectum for Cancer

Matthiessen, Peter; Hallböök, Olof; Rutegård, Martin; Simert, G.; Sjödahl, Rune

doi:10.1097/sla.0b013e3180603024

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Defunctioning Stoma Reduces Symptomatic Anastomotic Leakage After Low Anterior Resection of the Rectum for Cancer

Published in Annals of Surgery • Jul 23, 2007

Authors:

Peter Matthiessen

Olof Hallböök

Martin Rutegård

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this randomized multicenter trial was to assess the rate of symptomatic anastomotic leakage in patients operated on with low anterior resection for rectal cancer and who were intraoperatively randomized to a defunctioning stoma or not. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: The introduction ...

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Medicine

Randomized controlled trial

Surgery

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