title: Self-everting ileostomy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride, UK. drgjmac@hotmail.com
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: MacKay
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007081:Ileostomy / Q000379:methods*; D007082:Ileum / Q000601:surgery