534 SMOKING HABITS-AND NEPHROPATHY AND RETINOPATHY IN
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OPERATIONS FOR DIVERTICULAR DISEASE our work with Since May, 1976, multiple tseniamyotomy (T.T.M.). twelve patients with diverticular disease of the sigmoid have undergone T.T.M. at this institute. The indications for T.T.M. were: severe symptoms (pain and constipation), absence of any inflammation or perforation, presence of muscular disorder (shortening of the sigmoid, thickening of the muscle, high intraluminal pressures), and failure of medical treatment. Multiple transverse sections of the antimesenteric tamise
SIR,-Your editorial of July 1 mentioned transverse
*N=non-smoker; M=moderate smoker; H=heavy smoker.
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