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This image illustrates the layout of your bowels
and how surgery will affect their function.
This is the small bowel known as the ileum.
This is the large bowel known as the colon.
This is the ***.
There are many different operations that may lead to you needing an ileostomy.
Your stoma care nurse will discuss your specific surgery
with you in more detail.
The image you can now see
is the most common position for either an end
or a loop ileostomy to be situated.
Here we can see the formation an end ileostomy.
Here we can see how a loop ileostomy
is created.
Both ileostomies, the loop and the end ileostomy,
will necessitate the wearing of a drainable pouch
which is visible here.