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Docs! please tell me if there is a difference in a partial cecectomy and a right hemicolectomy?
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Different procedures: The terminal small bowel (ileum) enters into the rt. lower colon or cecum where the appendix is attached. If there is a small polypoid lesion of cecum or appendicitis one can resect a portion of the cecum and anastomose termnal ileum to rt. colon. In the case of cancer of the cecum, in order to remove draining nodes, the rt. colic vessesl are removed with nodes and a rt. hemicolectomy is done.
Answered 6/6/2014
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