"Virtual ileostomy" combined with early endoscopy to avoid a diversion ileostomy in low or ultralow colorectal anastomoses. A preliminary report.
Blas Flor-LorenteLuis Sánchez-GuillénGianluca PellinoMatteo FrassonÁlvaro García-GraneroMarta PonceSantiago DomingoVicente PayaEduardo García-GraneroPublished in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2019)
The combination of VI with early postoperative endoscopy could avoid unnecessary ileostomies in patients with low or ultralow anastomoses and reveal AL before the onset of symptoms, thus reducing associated morbidity.