Ileostomy Surgery: In ileostomy surgery, part or all of the large intestine (colon) is removed, and the stoma is created from the small intestine. Just as with a colostomy, an external appliance is ...

How Will a Colostomy Change My Life? If you get a colostomy, your medical team will talk to you while you’re still in the hospital after the surgery about how to take care of it and will give ...

It therefore seems that the majority of patients with Hinchey III who have LPL avoid the sigmoid colectomy and also a stoma, either ileostomy or colostomy. However, it should be noted that LPL is not ...

This is to give the bowel time to heal. An ileostomy is an opening (stoma) of the small bowel (ileum) onto the surface of the tummy (abdomen). A colostomy is an opening (stoma) of the large bowel ...