Complete Mesocolic Excision With Central Vascular Ligation Produces an Oncologically Superior Specimen Compared With Standard Surgery for Carcinoma of the Colon | Zendy

Nicholas P. West | Zendy; Werner Hohenberger | Zendy; Klaus Weber | Zendy; Aristotelis Perrakis | Zendy; P J Finan | Zendy; Philip Quirke | Zendy

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Complete Mesocolic Excision With Central Vascular Ligation Produces an Oncologically Superior Specimen Compared With Standard Surgery for Carcinoma of the Colon

Author(s) -

Nicholas P. West,

Werner Hohenberger,

Klaus Weber,

Aristotelis Perrakis,

P J Finan,

Philip Quirke

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of clinical oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 10.482

H-Index - 548

eISSN - 1527-7755

pISSN - 0732-183X

DOI - 10.1200/jco.2009.24.1448

Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , lymph node , mesentery , colorectal cancer , colectomy , grading (engineering) , cancer , pathology , civil engineering , engineering

The plane of surgery in colonic cancer has been linked to patient outcome although the optimal extent of mesenteric resection is still unclear. Surgeons in Erlangen, Germany, routinely perform complete mesocolic excision (CME) with central vascular ligation (CVL) and report 5-year survivals of higher than 89%. We aimed to further investigate the importance of CME and CVL surgery for colonic cancer by comparison with a series of standard specimens.

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