Surgical Devices for Creating Stomas

Colostomy with easy self-management and without complication is very important for the quality of life of ostomates. In consideration of the increase of aged ostomates with spontaneous evacuation, protruded type of the stoma would be better for stoma management. In order to create good stomas, various surgical procedures were tried on skin incision of abdominal wall and length of the colon delivered through stoma wound. Twenty cases of colostomy were evaluated in this study, and it was found that 2.5 × 1.5 cm (vertical and horizontal diameter) of skin incision of abdominal wall resulted in 2.5±0.4 cm (M±SE), and 3.03.5cm of length of the colon resulted in 1.2±0.6cm (M±SE). Thus the operations were satisfactory for creating good stoma.