Anis Subhan, Nusrat Anis.
Primary Closure of the Colon in Trauma: A safe procedure.
J Surg Pak Jan ;6(4):3-5.

The complications associated with colostomy, its closure and the high cost of managing a colostomy in our setting is a critical and ever-present consideration. A single layer interrupted full thickness inverting technique was used for anastomosis. One hundred and sixteen patients were included in the study, 99 were male and 17 female. The cause of injury was penetrating in I I l cases and blunt injury in the remaining five. Right sided colonic injury was present in 76 cases whereas left sided colon was involved in 32 cases. In the remaining eight cases of rectal injury the left colon was also injured. Simple repair, debridement of injured gut and resection anastomosis was carried out depending on the nature and extent of injury. There was no clinical evidence of anastomotic leakage in any case.

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