1. During a colectomy , the patient is placed under general anesthesia. 2. The study included 109 patients undergoing open, elective, total abdominal colectomy . 3. The traditional bowel resection is made using an open surgical approach, called colectomy . 4. Meanwhile, colectomy for constipation was abandoned amid low success rates but high complication rates. 5. Lane began with colon bypass, and then, at insufficient improvements, performed total colectomy . 6. By 1982, Lane's introduced colectomy for constipation was declared " clinically futile ". 7. We would like to do something like a colectomy laparoscopically because there is less trauma to the patient. 8. These people most often require immediate colectomy because 10 % have perforated colon at the time of surgery. 9. A surgeon performing a colectomy will make a lower midline incision in the abdomen or a lateral lower transverse incision. 10. In 2002, Pettyjohn did not play professional baseball because he had to undergo a colectomy due to ulcerative colitis.
