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Robot-assisted Total Mesorectal Excision and Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Locally Advanced Middle-low Rectal Cancer
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[Surgical treatment of rectal cancer in middle-aged and elderly patients]
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova
|February 24, 2001
Abstract:
This article presents results of surgical treatment of 439 patients with cancer of the rectum, including 310 (70.6%) patients older than 60. The transabdominoperineal extirpation of the rectum was made in 48.1% of the elderly and senile patients, the anterior (transabdominal) resection--in 33.6%, Gartman's operation--in 12.6%, transanal excision of the tumor--in 11 patients. Lethal outcomes after the surgical interventions was 4.8%.
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