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What does enterectomy mean?

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  1. (surgery) The excision of part of the intestine.
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Survival after total enterectomy, pancreatectomy, and portal vein ligation, and the effect of such a condition on liver function have never been reported in humans.
His medical history included chronic nephrolithiasis, urinary tract infections and three episodes of small bowel obstruction managed with extensive enterectomy.
Partial enterectomy was required for hemorrhagic necrosis of the incarcerated intestinal segment only in Case 3. No postoperative complications occurred in their clinical courses.
In 12 of the 18 reported cases, enterectomy was not performed.
Open image in new window Fig. 21 a, b CT enterography of a patient with Crohn's disease who had previously undergone segmental enterectomy.

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