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What does enterotomy mean?

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Noun
  1. (surgery) incision into the intestine
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Commonly, the peritoneal cavity is opened and adhesiolysis is performed with the potential for enterotomy.
When a Gastrografin enema is unsuccessful, laparotomy is indicated to evacuate the obstructing meconium by enterotomy irrigation.
After achieving hemostasis we had to do a small bowel resection rather than an enterotomy to remove the stones.
Despite improved techniques, most ECFs currently develop after surgical procedures, secondary to anastomotic leakage, disruption of repaired enterotomy, or inadvertent intraoperative bowel injury.
The surgical procedure undertaken was transfixion of the offending vessel and appropriate closure of the access enterotomy.
It could not be reduced by gentle traction, so the lesser sac was opened up and the caecum decompressed with a small enterotomy and suction to allow reduction.

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