Anus is orthotopic

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Please take this quick survey to tell us about what happens after you publish a paper. In four patients an additional pouch was constructed to improve neorectal motility and capacity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results in the first 20 patients and to report on the preliminary results of patients with an additional pouch. METHODS: Twenty patients with a mean age of 52 range, 25—71 years and a rectal tumor at a mean of 3 range, 0—5 cm from the anal verge were treated. In 14 patients the Miles resection, colon pull-through, and construction of a neosphincter were performed in one session.

Orthotopic liver transplant OLT is the surgical procedure of choice for patients with end-stage primary sclerosing cholangitis PSC. Exclusion criteria for the selection of OLT patients were chronic advanced liver diseases including hepatocellular diseases, vascular diseases, vascular disease and other cholestatic diseases. Figure 1. A large prospective study is warranted to validate the finding and to identify potential contributing factors.

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