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This medical exhibit depicts a bowel surgery resection. The first image illustrates a leak from a pre-existing anastomosis of the ileum (small intestine) with the transverse colon (large intestine). The second image shows the transverse colon removed back to the splenic flexure and an ileostomy placed in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen.
© 2012 Nucleus Medical Art/Doctor Stock
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