The opening is also known as a stoma. The stool is collected in a colostomy bag,. A colostomy is where part of your large bowel (colon) is brought out through an opening made in your tummy.
A colostomy is an operation where the large bowel (colon) is brought onto the surface of the abdomen to create an opening. Colostomy surgery can be performed using either an open or minimally invasive approach. This provides a new path for waste material and gas to leave your body.
When medical reasons require you to bypass part of your colon, surgeons make a new. The elimination occurs through the proximal stoma. The opening is called a stoma. Colostomy is formed surgically when part of the colon is brought out through an opening in the abdominal wall onto the surface of the skin.
A colostomy is a surgical procedure that changes the way stool (poop) exits your body. You will no longer poo from. A colostomy is surgery to create an opening for the colon (large intestine) through the belly (abdomen). Colostomy surgery is a surgical procedure to remove part of the colon and create an opening to allow stool to pass out of the body.
This part of the colon is called the stoma. It’s also possible to reverse an end colostomy, but this is less common.