1 on of an ongoing fibrosis on the epithelial, stomal, and endothelial levels in PBK/ABK corneas.

2                                              Stomal biopsies and autopsies were obtained to study the

3 .7 +/- 3.9 arbitrary units, p < 0.05) during stomal breathing as compared with nasal breathing.

4 sus activation under both nasal and tracheal stomal breathing conditions, in five patients.

5 ug, as has been the case in gastrointestinal stomal cell tumors.

6 ), ischemic bowel (n=3), perforations (n=3), stomal complications (n=3), and graft removal (n=3).

7                                 No long-term stomal complications were identified or reported.

8 l ulcerations treated with acid suppression, stomal stenoses treated with endoscopic dilatation, late

9 tic leaks, 10 symptomatic marginal ulcers, 5 stomal stenoses, 3 bowel obstructions, 26 incisional her

10 nastomotic leak (0.3% vs. 2%, P = 0.001) and stomal stenosis (1% vs. 4.7%, P = 0.001).

11 aroscopic adjustable gastric banding include stomal stenosis, malpositioned bands, pouch dilation, ba

12 de anastomotic leak, staple-line disruption, stomal stenosis, occlusion of the Roux limb, small-bowel

13                                     None had stomal ulcers or macroscopic inflammation.