It is very common for the patient to have to use colostomy bag after operations on the tumors of the distal part of the large intestine (distal rectum). However, with the new surgical technique (interfacial rectal resection) started in the western countries in the 1990s, the necessity of using colostomy (bag) in these patients has come out in a big way. The patients have been using the bag temporarily after the first operation. 

In our country, for the first time in 1997, this technique began to use two surgeons, and they even made changes in order to function better in the surgical technique. One of these two surgeons (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Osman Krand) is working at our institution. This team, which also has Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tunc Yaltı, has been working on this subject in 2009 in a memorable american bowel disease journal (Disease Colon and Rectum) have published. A multi-centered japanese study assessed the surgical procedures performed on Distalrectum tumors and observed that 90% of cases of persistent colostomy (torpedo) cases were actually patients with large intestinal attachment to the large intestine, and that these patients did not require a permanent bag when they underwent pathologic examination of surgically removed tumorous intestinal parts.