Overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis

✍ Scribed by R. J. Aitken

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 151 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800740846

✦ Synopsis

After division of the middle colic and right colic arteries (in order to gain length) the ascending colon supplied by a marginal vessel from the ileocolic artery was anastomosed to the anus using the stapler and a loop ileostomy constructed. He remains an in-patient.