title: A technique of anastomosing bowel ends with discrepancy in size.
abstract: There have been only a few methods devised to solve the problem of discrepancy in size of the bowel ends for anastomosis. We describe another method to overcome this problem by using a one-layer open technique. For the posterior wall the anastomosis consists of a horizontal mattress suture on the larger end and a vertical mattress suture on the smaller end. For the anterior wall the Gambee suture is used.
mesh_terms: D003106:Colon / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000601:surgery; D007422:Intestines / Q000601:surgery*; D008722:Methods; D012007:Rectum / Q000601:surgery; D013536:Suture Techniques