Search for dissertations about: "permanent stoma"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the words permanent stoma.
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6. Long term aspects of defunctioning stoma following low anterior resection for rectal cancer
Abstract : In Sweden, more than 2 000 individuals are diagnosed with rectal cancer each year. Surgery is the main curative treatment, and involves removal of the tumor with the surrounding mesorectum in adefined anatomical plane. Intestinal continuity is restored by anastomosing the colon to the rectalstump at the pelvic floor. READ MORE
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7. Studies of prognostic and functional outcomes in surgery for rectal cancer
Abstract : The order of priorities in surgery for rectal cancer are firstly to achieve local control and cure from the disease, secondly to minimise perioperative discomfort and complications, and thirdly to obtain the best possible bowel function. Rectal tumours can be removed with local surgery but most common are abdominal procedures with or without a permanent or temporary stoma. READ MORE
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8. On long-term outcome of anastomotic leakage after anterior resection for rectal cancer
Abstract : Background: Anterior resection has the benefit of enabling bowel continuity, but suffer from a common complication in anastomotic leakage.There is a paucity in previous research of long-term implications of anastomotic leakage after anterior resection. READ MORE
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9. Surgery and stomas in Crohn's disease
Abstract : This study investigates the evolution of abdominal surgery in treatment of Crohn´s disease (CD) in the era of immunomodulatory drugs and biologicals. It concerns risk of abdominal surgery overall and sub-categories of abdominal surgery, risk of repeat surgery and factors that affect this risk, and risk of getting a stoma. READ MORE
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10. Surgery and anorectal function in Crohn's colitis
Abstract : The study concerns surgery in Crohn's disease, particularly Crohn's colitis, its relation to medical treatment, symptomatic load, perceived health, quality of life, outcome on anorectal function and also anorectal physiologic conditions.Four hundred and thirty-two patients treated at the University Hospital, Linköping from 1970 to 1997 were included in the study. READ MORE