Self-everting ileostomy.
OBJECTIVE
Self-everting ileostomy.


METHODS
After delivering the small bowel through the trephine wound the bowel is opened and with time the mucosa migrates to the skin edge forming a spouted ileostomy.


RESULTS
Five patients underwent the self-everting ileostomy with no stomal complications experienced. The end result is indistinguishable from a primarily sutured stoma.


CONCLUSIONS
The self-everting ileostomy can be a useful technique to get out of a difficult situation.
MacKay
G
G
Department of General Surgery, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, UK. drgjmac@hotmail.com
Goldberg
J
J
D006801:Humans; D007081:Ileostomy / Q000379:methods*; D007082:Ileum / Q000601:surgery