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Extraperitoneal bilateral cutaneous ureterostomy with midline stoma for palliation of pelvic cancer
- Source :
- Urology. 63:973-975
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2004.
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Abstract
- In a subset of patients with intractable symptoms from incurable pelvic cancer, palliative cystectomy and urinary diversion with intestinal segments may not be feasible. The described technique, in which a midline stoma was constructed and dissection was entirely extraperitoneal, resulted in symptom relief in 8 patients.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Palliative care
business.industry
Urology
medicine.medical_treatment
Palliative Care
Urinary diversion
Surgical Stomas
Surgery
Ureterostomy
Cystectomy
Dissection
Ureter
medicine.anatomical_structure
Stoma (medicine)
medicine
Humans
Pelvic Neoplasms
business
human activities
Aged
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00904295
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Urology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8040d22c6d38bdf06392f5dbfdd028cc
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2003.11.008