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  2. What are stoma and ostomy bags? Doctors explain - AOL

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    Stoma and ostomy bags may also be referred to as colostomy bags. "There are different types of bags for a stoma but ultimately a stoma bag or ostomy bag are really the same thing," Mumtaz says.

  3. Colostomy - Wikipedia

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    A colostomy is an opening ... rather than a colostomy bag. [6] ... the ostomy is located the greater the output and more frequent the need to empty or change the ...

  4. Ostomy system - Wikipedia

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    An ostomy pouching system [1] is a ... system consisting only of a bag or, ... as physical complications such as weight change. In various online ostomy groups and ...

  5. Stoma (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Colostomy Patient with a colostomy complicated by a large parastomal hernia, which is when tissue protrudes adjacent to the stoma tract. CT scan of same patient, showing intestines within the hernia. Parastomal hernia is the most common late complication of stomata through the abdominal wall, occurring in 10 to 25% of the patients. [1]

  6. Ileo-anal pouch - Wikipedia

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    People with ileostomies wear an external bag, also known as an ostomy system or stoma appliance, to collect waste which can be emptied and changed as needed. With an optional ileo-anal pouch procedure, the pouch component is a surgically constructed internal intestinal reservoir; usually situated near where the rectum would normally be.

  7. Matthew Perry recalls horrors of dealing with colostomy bag ...

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    Another shocking revelation was Perry discussing having a colostomy bag after his colon exploded in 2018 due to OxyContin abuse. ... he had colostomy surgery to change the trajectory of the waste ...

  8. List of -ostomies - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of surgeries and surgical procedures that are -ostomy or -stomy : surgically creating a hole (a new "mouth" or "stoma") Gastrointestinal.

  9. Elise Sørensen - Wikipedia

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    Ostomy Pouch. Elise Sørensen (Kalundborg, July 2, 1903 – Ordrup, July 5, 1977) [1] was a Danish nurse and the inventor of the colostomy bag. [2]In 1954 her sister had an ostomy operation (a procedure that takes the end of the intestine out through the abdomen, allowing waste to exit via a surgically created stoma). [3]