Protective colostomy closure: the hazards of a ?minor? operation

Implications of Malnutrition in the Surgical Patient

James L. Mullen · Archives of Surgery · 1979 · 527 citations

Agriculture, Nutritional Sciences, Surgery +17

De-functioning stomas: A prospective controlled trial comparing loop ileostomy with loop transverse colostomy

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Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Surgery +16

Complications of colostomies

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Medicine, Surgery, Bowel Management +15

Complications of loop ileostomy

Stanley M. Feinberg, Robin S. McLeod, Zane Cohen · The American Journal of Surgery · 1987 · 131 citations

Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Surgery +10

Closure of colostomy

Adrian Knox, F D H Birkett, C Collins · British journal of surgery · 1971 · 100 citations

Medicine, Surgery, Gastroenterology +15