What's the difference between enterostomy and enterotomy?
Enterostomy
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Enterotomy
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(n.) Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
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(1) Operative enterotomy and irrigation was successful in three cases while resection and enterostomy was done in nine.
(2) The question of whether the presence of peritonitis has any influence upon the process of healing and the load capacity of a standard enterotomy was studied in guinea pigs.
(3) In jejunojejunal and ileoileal intussusceptions, an attempt at primary reduction followed by resection or enterotomy is justified.
(4) An enterotomy, performed through a flank approach to the celiac cavity, successfully relieved the obstruction.
(5) Endoscopic peroperative panpolypectomy is carried out and only in bulky, broadbased, multiple or invaginating polyps is an enterotomy or a resection - kept to a minimum thanks to the information provided by the endoscopist - performed.
(6) Among 37,857 operations in a general surgical department (1965-1975), 205 interventions on the small intestine were necessary- enterotomies, oversuturing, amputations and resections.
(7) The small bowel was emptied preoperatively by a Dennis long-tube, and the impacted bolus was removed by enterotomy.
(8) All patients but three underwent enterotomy, gastrotomy, or enterotomy combined with gastrotomy for bezoar removal.
(9) The impacted enterolith was removed by enterotomy and the smaller one milked into the intestine.
(10) Reticuloendothelial clearance capacity was significantly (P less than 0-05) depressed 60 min following surgery (coeliotomy plus jejunal enterotomy) as quantified by both humoral and cellular parameters of RE function.
(11) In a case with approximately 30 hamartoma, associated endoscopic polypectomy and surgical removal of polyps by eversing the mucosa through enterotomies allowed the medicosurgical team to obtain a "clean small bowel" without resection.
(12) In most instances a proximal or distal enterotomy is required.
(13) From these data the authors conclude: that age alone should not be a deterrent to operative intervention in small bowel obstruction; the presence of a 1 degree or 2 degrees malignant process in the elderly patient is a significant risk factor for mortality; any patient operated on for SBO having an enterotomy should have their wound managed by delayed 1 degree closure; and because of the lack of reliability of the clinical criteria for strangulation, operative intervention in the elderly should be undertaken as soon as the diagnosis of mechanical obstruction is made.
(14) Patients are managed at laparotomy with intraoperative endoscopy, angiography, multiple enterotomies, "blind" resections, or placement of an enterostomy.
(15) The overall mean bursting pressure of non-contact-welded enterotomies was 50.6 mmHg.
(16) The patient was a chronic alcoholic who, when in an intoxicated state during sex, presumably swallowed condoms which resulted ultimately in the need for 14 laparotomies, 3 enterotomies, the resectioning of an intestine, and, once, the gastroscopic removal of the condom.
(17) In five patients, stones were removed by enterotomy and in three patients the obstruction was relieved by manual propulsion of the stones.
(18) Surgical procedures performed were milking of worms (34.12%), resection anastomosis of small intestine (23.36%), enterotomy with removal of worms (16.36%), cholecystectomy with T-tube drainage (12.15%), cholecystectomy (8.41%), appendectomy (1.87%), resection anastomosis with excision of Meckel's diverticulum (1.40%), repair of intestinal perforation with peritoneal toilet (1.40%) and cholecystectomy with choledochoduodenostomy (0.93%).
(19) Exploratory celiotomy was performed in 69 horses, the mass was reduced by extramural massage in 67 horses, and ingesta was removed via enterotomy in 2.
(20) Enterotomy of the large colon allows retrieval of most enteroliths from its lumen.