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Large Bowel Obstruction Due to Carcinoma of the Rectum

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Neoadjuvant radiation and chemotherapy are frequently employed for locally advanced rectal cancer. When the tumor is obstructing or near-obstructing, some sort of decompressive strategy is needed. Open colostomy was, for many years, the standard approach. Two minimalaccess techniques of endoluminal stenting and laparoscopic colostomy have emerged and are explored in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Dionne Skeete (Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology-Hepatology Fellow, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Maged Rizk

  3. University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Henning Gerke (Gastroenterologist)

  4. Department of Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, San Jose, CA, USA

    Manjula Jeyapalan

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Skeete, D., Rizk, M., Gerke, H., Jeyapalan, M. (2008). Large Bowel Obstruction Due to Carcinoma of the Rectum. In: Scott-Conner, C.E.H. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Strategic Decision Making. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76671-3_27

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