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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2014 Oct 30;166(2):444–50.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.09.039

Table II.

Process of Care: lifetime history of select surgeries

Surgeries Total sample, n (%), N = 2172 By SB type
P value*
MMC (n = 1763) Non-MMC (n = 409)
Neurosurgery
 Ventricular shunt placement 1427 (65.7) 1409 (79.9) 18 (4.4) <.0001
 Chiari decompression 159 (7.3) 156 (8.8) 3 (0.7) <.0001
Bladder surgeries
 Bladder augmentation 261 (12.0) 235 (13.3) 26 (6.4) <.0001
 Appendicovesicostomy (Mitrofanoff) 204 (9.4) 189 (10.7) 15 (3.7) <.0001
 Ileovesicostomy (Monti) 74 (3.4) 72 (4.1) 2 (0.5) <.0001
 Vesicostomy 114 (5.2) 109 (6.2) 5 (1.2) <.0001
Bowel surgeries
 Creation of ACE stoma 276 (12.7) 259 (14.7) 17 (4.2) <.0001
 Cecostomy button or rube 23 (1.1) 22 (1.2) 1 (0.2) .1032
 Colostomy 40 (1.8) 25 (1.4) 15 (3.7) .0064

ACE, antegrade continent enema.

*

P value for difference between type of SB (MMC vs non-MMC).

Surgical procedures that create a stoma for an antegrade continent enema, including an appendicocestomy, a Malone antegrade continent enema procedure, or any procedure that uses a bowel segment to create a stoma to the bowel through which an antegrade enema can be delivered.

A procedure in which a plastic “button” is inserted to create a channel for an antegrade continent enema.