Abstract
gone ileostomy closure, but in center 2, 5 of 48 patients (10%) had not. The study concluded that the majority of ileostomies were closed within 12 weeks when the patients were provided with a date for ileostomy reversal at discharge after the primary rectal surgery. Although many surgeons generally perform an ileostomy reversal around 3 months after the primary rectal surgery, for many reasons, the operation sometimes may be delayed by more than 3 months. den Dulk et al. [2] reported factors that limited stoma reversal in patients who had undergone a total mesorectal excision (TME) for rectal cancer. A total of 924 patients with rectal cancer underwent a low anterior resection. In 523 of those 924 patients (57%), a primary stoma was created after a low anterior resection: 329 of those 523 patients (63%) had ileostomies and 194 (37%) had colostomies. The median follow-up was 7.1 years (range, 2.5–
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