A 4-year-old boy in a collision with a speeding motorcycle as he crossed the road was referred to our hospital from a ...

A 62-year-old man with a parastomal hernia at the site of a urinary conduit and symptoms of urinary obstruction lasting ...

She founded the organization Gutless and Glamorous with the mission of empowering those living with or contemplating ostomy surgery due to illness or injury. She also strives to erase the negative ...

An ostomy is a surgical procedure creating an opening, or "stoma," on the abdomen to allow waste to exit the body. This may be essential due to conditions like Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis ...

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The study aimed to explore the role of fluorine-18-aluminum fluoride-1,4,7-triazacyclononane-1,4,7-triacetic acid-octreotide (F-OC) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in ...

A colostomy is an operation to create an opening (stoma) of the large bowel (colon) onto the surface of the tummy (abdomen). Your poo no longer passes out of your body through your back passage.

The cause of the ischaemic stoma complications was thought ... Figure 3 demonstrates CT scan images of a complete rupture of a hernia repair and seroma formation above and below a sublay mesh.

This program provides a lump-sum payment covering, in full or in part, the cost of appliances and supplies for persons having undergone a permanent or temporary ostomy (colostomy, ileostomy or ...