Surgical treatment of chronic constipation. Finsterer (Wien. kl. Woch., 1926, no. 32)

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For this purpose, instead of a complete colon extirpation (colectomia totalis) according to Lanier, which gives too high primary mortality rate, the author suggests partial resection, especially in the form of removal of the left half of the colon, from the middle colonis transversi to the colon pelvinum. He performed such partial resection in 40 patients, including 39 adults and one 9-year-old child, with fatal outcome of the operation in 2 cases - a child and one adult.

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