Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
cecostomy
Subclass of:
Enterostomy procedure
Definitions related to cecostomy:
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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.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Surgical creation of an opening in the cecum.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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