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Preferred term

Cecostomy  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Cecostomies, Tube
  • Cecostomy, Tube
  • Tube Cecostomies
  • Tube Cecostomy

Scope note

  • Surgical construction of an opening into the CECUM with a tube through the ABDOMINAL WALL (tube cecostomy) or by skin level approach, in which the cecum is sewn to the surrounding PERITONEUM. Its primary purpose is decompression of colonic obstruction.

History note

  • 91(88); was see under ENTEROSTOMY 1988-90

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • caecostomia
  • kekostomia
  • kekostomiat
  • kekostooma
  • sekostomiat
  • sekostooma
  • umpisuoliavanne
  • umpisuoliavanteet
  • Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002431

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