title: Isolated ureterosigmoidostomy and isolated vesicorectal anastomosis. The rectal bladder.
abstract: Our experience documents that an isolated internal urinary diversion and the requisite diverting colostomy offer an acceptable long-term method for establishing sphincteric urinary continence while preserving renal function and upper-tract morphology. This procedure has been widely accepted by those patients undergoing it.
authors.affiliation: Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Kroovand
mesh_terms: D012809:Colon, Sigmoid / Q000601:surgery; D003125:Colostomy; D000075202:Contraindications; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000502:physiology; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012007:Rectum / Q000601:surgery; D014519:Ureterostomy; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D016476:Urinary Reservoirs, Continent / Q000379:methods*