National Institutes of Health
- The primary NIH organization for research on Ostomy is the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Sometimes treating diseases of the digestive or urinary systems involves removing all or part of your small intestine, colon, rectum or bladder. In these cases, there must be a new way for wastes to leave the body. The surgery to create the new opening in the abdomen is called ostomy. The opening is called a stoma.
There are many different types of ostomy. Some examples are
NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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