Your A-Z guide to colostomy
What is a colostomy? A colostomy is a surgical procedure by which a surgeon brings part of your large intestine through a hole in your abdomen to create a stoma....

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What is a colostomy? A colostomy is a surgical procedure by which a surgeon brings part of your large intestine through a hole in your abdomen to create a stoma....
On a first glance, both colostomies and ileostomies sound fairly similar. As the name suggests, they’re both ostomies that involve surgery to bring a part of your bowel through to...
Whether your stoma can be reversed or not is dependent on many factors. For example, whereas a colostomy and an ileostomy can be temporary, a urostomy is always permanent. For...