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Colectomy for constipation-a time for renewed caution?

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NATURE REVIEWS GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages 675-+

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2015.191

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  1. National Institute for Health Research [RP-PG-0612-20001] Funding Source: researchfish
  2. National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) [RP-PG-0612-20001] Funding Source: National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR)
  3. Department of Health [RP-PG-0612-20001] Funding Source: Medline

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Colectomy is rightly viewed as a last resort in selected patients with slow-transit constipation. A new study presents US national data that raises new concerns regarding the outcome of this procedure and perhaps questions whether it should be offered at all.

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