WORLD JOURNAL OF SURGERY, cilt.30, sa.10, ss.1935-1938, 2006 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Surgical patients frequently need some type of intestinal stomas for a wide spectrum of disorders. Maintaining effective and enough decompression of gastrointestinal tract, securing distal bowel segments and anastomosis are the primary goals of ostomy formation as well as providing a minimum complication rate of closure or "take-down".