Omentoplasty for persistent perineal sinus after proctectomy for Crohn’s disease
✍ Scribed by Takayuki Yamamoto; Emmanouil Mylonakis; Michael R.B Keighley
- Book ID
- 117023267
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Volume
- 181
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9610
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Abstract The rate of perineal wound healing was assessed in a series of 112 patients undergoing proctectomy for Crohn's colitis. Healing was impaired in patients with a high fistula-in-ano or a rectovaginal fistula pre-operatively, faecal contamination and postoperative perineal sepsis. Early healin
## Abstract The utilization of a myocutaneous flap based on the gracilis muscle is described in two patients who had a persistent perineal sinus following proctocolectomy for Crohn's disease. In each case the posterior vaginal wall had eroded to form a fistula. This flap provided a cutaneous surfac