This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (3)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

An Eight-Year Appraisal

LUCIUS D. HILL, M.D.; C. S. STONE, JR., M.D.; JOEL W. BAKER, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1961;83(1):98-104.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Five years ago we reported before the Western Surgical Association¹ a series of single-stage proctocolectomies and ileostomies done through an abdominal incision without a perineal approach. Continued usage of this method whenever feasible in the treatment of chronic ulcerative colitis over the ensuing 5 years has brought gratifying results. Many operations have been employed for this disease and have been discarded after a short trial. A review of our series is presented to answer the question of whether or not the single-stage abdominal proctocolectomy has stood the test of time.

This report is concerned with 50 patients who required surgery for chronic ulcerative colitis during the last 8 years. Our chief interest has been in the 23 patients treated by single-stage proctocolectomy and ileostomy. These are compared with a series of 24 staged colectomies and ileostomies, the majority of which were performed before 5 years ago. In addition, in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SEATTLE

From the Department of Surgery of the Mason Clinic.

Footnotes
Read at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Detroit, Dec. 3, 1960.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?