[Complications following colostomy closure --resection or extraperitoneal closure?].

At the Surgical Clinic of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg 213 colostomies in the period between 1961 and 1971 have been closed. In 88 patients an extraperitoneal procedure and in 125 patients a resection was performed. We recommend resection, because complications (first of all leakage) have been observed less often than in the extraperitoneal method.