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Chapter 7
Figure 3. ARM thickness was measured at 8 centimetres (cm) above and below, 3 cm above and below and at colostomy level.
Results
Inclusion and exclusion criteria
A total of 160 patients from the PACIFIC cohort who had given informed consent were screened if a postoperative CT was available. At the time of our study, 32 patients were excluded (due to removal of the colostomy, multiple enterostomies, ap transposition of ARM, or a burst abdomen), 49 did not receive a postoperative CT, and in 2 patients the postoperative CT was taken within 1 month after surgery, leaving 77 patients eligible for this study.
General
The median time between creation of the colostomy and the postoperative CT-scans was 19 months (range 1 to 96). Of all patients 44, (57%) were men,
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