Open AccessAdjustment to the dry colostomy: By patients colostomized five or more years ago
Author(s) -
Sutherland Arthur M.
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
ca: a cancer journal for clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 62.937
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1542-4863
pISSN - 0007-9235
DOI - 10.3322/canjclin.1.5.161
Subject(s) - colostomy , nothing , recreation , medicine , general surgery , ecology , biology , philosophy , epistemology
Under ideal conditions the dry colostomy and its management can be nothing more than a disagreeable nuisance, without impairment of earning power or restriction of recreational or social activities. It should never be allowed to become a major catastrophe.