Surgical treatment of coprostasis in patients with dolichocolon

Dzhavadov, E.A.; Kurbanov, F.S.; Tkachenko, I.N.

Khirurgiia 5: 50-52

2010


ISSN/ISBN: 0023-1207
PMID: 20559212
Document Number: 644087
Data of surgical treatment of 17 patients with proctogenic coprostasis and dolichocolon are summarized and analyzed. In spite of the colon stretching, the main reason of coprostasis in all patients was pelvic floor muscles disfunction. Etiologically aimed treatment provided good and satisfactory immediate and long-term results. An importance of scrupulous preoperative diagnostic and active surgical tactics are stressed.

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